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01 Intro to the Lineage 02 Hare Rama Krsna 03 Guna Introduction 04 Creation according to Parashara 05 Bhu Loka, Atma 06 Avatars 07 Matsya 08 Sukara, Brith, Pranapada 09 Vamana 10 Parasurama 11 Ramakrsna 12 Kurma 13 Narasimha, Veda Murtis 14 Buddha, Kalki 15 Four Paramatmamsa Avatars 16 Intro to Gunas 17 Gunas and Grahas/Rasis 18 Four types of Guna,
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18 Four types of Guna, Uttama 19 Madhyama, Adhana, Udasina 20 Dynamic Gunas 21 Guna and Varnada Lagna 22 Upaya 23 Mantra Shastra
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01 Introduction to the Lineage
So we come to the first Vyasa SJC class of the west one day we would start this class. I knew that if SJC a proper way it has to be over here. Normally in the name it after a Rishi. So the person who is to norma on, one of my students, he is given the choice of cho that he likes very much, and Freedom wanted that w
The important thing about these classes, number one
First, I will give a brief synopsis of what we are doin And then we will discuss about why and how we sh the actual first class.
So, first, the classes are free, right Freedom? We wi Lets be very clear on it. The classes are free. Nobod anything for coming to these classes. These classes b knowledge. OK? Guru is anybody who is saying som
who is listening to the knowledge. Some people do n row. Some people are ahead of others, thats all. Gu diksha guru. That means he is not somebody who is spirituality. He is not a spiritual master. Lets be ver right to be a spiritual master. The Jyotish guru has n
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right to be a spiritual master. The Jyotish guru has n master. I am very, very clear on that. Its free becaus will be very restricted in his teaching. That is the rea the tradition. It was always free. So that I can speak Ive crossed an hour or two hours or three hours. Th to speak my mind. Complete and total freedom beca involved over there in the first place. That is the reas not free that freedom will not be there. You lose out restriction comes up. That is the reason why the teac always kept free.
Now the reciprocation was in the form of dakshina s then sure that the teacher never went without food. H needs fulfilled. There were some who were richer an they would give based on their means. But in the mo happen. So, if we are going to have a course in the f is natural that some students who will expect to take take a degree from the course or things like, Willa is probably pay for the course, right? But we will try to possible. But that is a different area from these class coming for the classes it doesnt mean you have to t be really clear on that also, its purely optional. I am grow into a very nice friendship circle on Jyotish. It nobody is anybodys superior, OK?
Now the tradition. The tradition traces itself back in Mahaprabhu. It is said that the tradition lineage had have gone down very much in Orissa after all kinds all that we had. So Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revived i important statement: that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ha when we say that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has revive is who gave him the authority to revive the tradition the tradition? For this the authority we get is from B the chapter on avatars which we will be doing today
And why did he revive it? How did he revive it? Ho issue. Anyway it came down through a disciple of h persons father, this person
Achyuta, was a shudra by birth and became a brahm

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Achyuta, was a shudra by birth and became a brahm fascinating? It is clearly mentioned in his book that fathers profession was a shudra and I was upgraded karma. So that means that even at the time of Chaita not hard and fast. It all depended upon what you we
doing. So we will go into caste today also a little bit understand gunas.
Guna is very important so todays discussion is goin These are the foundation of Jyotish. The tradition th student, teacher, and the tradition was completely ce Temple. Not the Jagannath Temple. The main templ is centered is the Konark Temple, the Sun Temple. A have been Sun worshippers. Whether it was the grea Ra worshippers of Egypt, over centuries they have b astrologers. And if you see the Patanjalis Yoga Sutr that if you wish to know the movement of the planet future of mankind you have to meditate on the Sun. worship the Sun God Surya and from there they got tradition was revolving around the temple.
Naturally the biggest blow to the tradition came whe came and they completely bombarded and broke the completely devastated the temple. And then they we break the Puri temple but the astrologers of the king smarter than the Mughal king. They were far too int forefathers. He said it is stupid to fight these bums; t cannons, you cant fight them. You need brains to fi have brains, you can be sure of it. So what they did
temple and when the Muslim invaders came, instead swords toward them, the people welcomed them wit come in. They were shocked so they said, OK, they fight. So they said we want to break the temple. The lime, it will fall down anyway. They looked at it an things like that. They said it is made of lime; they ar lime. What kind of fools are they? They left and wen today. So who was a fool and who was intelligent? S tradition sort of went down after that. And then the B naturally when they see a beautiful piece of art it mu
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naturally when they see a beautiful piece of art it mu Museum. That is their tradition.
So I had the pleasure this time, you know I used to p on this planet without seeing the Sun God. I wanted eyes, to behold him with my own eyes, the statue th worshipped by my gurus, and gurus and the whole t so fortunate that on my way while in London we we and very beautifully the entire statue of the Sun God well-maintained, put in a glass cage. Q. Is it the original one? Sanjay: Yes.
When I looked at it, there were two conditions I told and I will know it will be from there. It will be black polished that some of the best machines today cant will be wearing boots. The Sun God wore boots, tha point of time a culture in which people wore shoes i that the navagrahas which were worshipped are also British Museum but not in the main room, its in the kept in a separate thing, hidden away. If you can fin exquisite.
So replicas of that are now kept near Konark and the continue in Orissa. What would the astrologers do? cant do anything. You have to make your own little with that. So the tradition continues. The thing is no knowledge. That is what I am going to say. They bro home the statues, and carted all kinds of collections. what kind of statues. In one temple in which almost British Museum. The first day I went there it was lik second day I went in there and then a thought came kind. If it was not preserved by the British who know have stolen it away, because today the maharajas ha a way it was kind of the British to keep our things fo
OK, so the knowledge continues, and what I want to

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cannot be stolen. That was the essence of what I was Nobody can steal your knowledge. Nobody. It is up you wish to give it. If the person who is taking the k open for the knowledge, he will not keep the knowle give it. So it is very important to come for the learni mind will get energized by itself if your heart is ope why the entire effort of the tradition was to meditate meditation is on the heart chakra not on the mind ch always on the heart chakra, because if the heart is no is absorbed. So the question is how to change your h
02 Hare Rama Krishna
Now we will start with a small mantra of the traditio starts with a prayer to Vishnu, always with a prayer Vishnu. Why Vishnu? We will come to that also int dhyana of the Vishnu Sahasranam. Dhyana means m meditation of Vishnu Sahasranam which is supposed us. What is sattva guna? We will study that also toda after me.
om ntkra bhujagaayana padmanbha surea vivdhra gaganasada meghavara ubhgam lakmknta kamalanayana yogibhirdhynagamya vande viu bhavabhayahara sarvalokaikantham
AUM shaantaakaaraM bhujagashayanaM padmanaabhaM sureshaM vishvaadhaaraM gaganasadR^ishaM meghavarNaM shubhaaN^gam.h . lakshmiikaantaM kamalanayanaM yogibhirdhyaanagamyaM vande vishhNuM bhavabhayaharaM sarvalokaikanaatham.h ..
And then three times you have to say Vishnu, Vishn on your book, on any book whose knowledge you w head where the guru sits. Vishnu. And then on the h very important. Any book. These three words, Vishn first words taught to me by my mother. My grandfat about it that these three words had to be taught to hi There are three because there are bhu, bhuvaha and knowledge and then the guru and then the heart whe The knowledge must ultimately come to your soul. I soul level the knowledge is not yours. It will go awa
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soul level the knowledge is not yours. It will go awa years if you dont practice you will forget it. Who kn not remember a single word. If you want the knowle after birth only one thing can insure that it is never d guna. And sattva guna comes from the name of Vish from where you want the knowledge. That is your g where the guru sits. And then your heart where your Vishnu. The knowledge is yours. This is an importa
OK? Now there is a mantra which we all do in the m up. Many of you have started practicing it. This man hatred from within you. Hatred is the biggest stumbl Hatred or aversion towards anything is the biggest s never learn anything so long as you have anger and let go of this hatred, you must forgive the anger, you your mind is not dwelling all the time on other thing life. The mantra is a simple shadakshari or six aksha mantras are mantras which remove your own evils. A six syllable mantra, will remove your own weakness you. They are meant to cleanse the sixth house, whic your own weaknesses. The mantra is Hare Rama Kr Now you can understand the meaning of the mantra Rama and Krishna. Why Hare Rama Krishna? What the sound Hara refers to Shiva. That means it is ausp Self. That is me. The Self in its highest manifestatio that part one day when we study Atmakaraka, becau Shiva himself. Shivoham: I am Shiva. So Hara is me manifestation.
Rama is the guru and there are so many forms of the not restrict your mind to think that there is only one learning will be lopsided. No single teacher can clai do that because you will block your own mind. Ther have to learn from. There are hundreds of teachers y things from. When you were kids you learned to go mother. Shes your first teacher. Do not disrespect h disrespecting your teacher. Similarly when as a little spiritual step it is the mother who is going to guide y Divine Mother, just as in this physical world you lea
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Divine Mother, just as in this physical world you lea of your mother, so also will you learn to take your fi world through your Divine Mother. That is called H
And then Rama the guru. So guru can come in many read about the guru is the Avadhuta Gita, the Srimad Krishna explains the different types of gurus. When Avadhuta Brahmana. There are 24 kinds of gurus th we talk of God. God is He who attracts you. Thats a akarshana or he to whom you are attracted. If you a you are repelled by Him or Her or whatever object o then that is not God for you. God is He who is prote protect you then he is not God. So God can come in without form. It all depends upon his function. Base trying to define Him. We say God is Shiva. Why? B He is the omnipotent, the strongest one. God is Vish feeding you all the time. And Hes everywhere. He Hes my God, Hes everybodys God. Omnipresent. Vishnu. The word Vishnu means sarvavyapakeshwa word. It has become a name when you label it on so a name when you label somebody with that name. S means sarvavyapakeswara. He who is everywhere. simply means God who is everywhere. Similarly Sh who is auspicious is strong, so He is omnipotent.
The word Brahma means he who has created everyt everything knows everything about his creation. Let you know everything about this tea. You know exac and what is there in it. How much of sugar, how mu milk; you know it because you have made it. Simila you knows everything about you. That is Brahma th So Brahma is not a God, it is a name of God, one of differentiate God on the basis of our ignorance, our different names. You call me Gurudev, somebody ca calls me Sanjay, somebody calls meKamu, somebod am one and the same person. Similarly there are so m there are many different manifestations of that whic aspect of God which we like. What I am only telling minds. Do not become narrow-minded. If you are na learn Jyotish. To learn Jyotish you must realize that
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learn Jyotish. To learn Jyotish you must realize that throughout this world in various different parts, with languages, with various different cultures. If it is a s science, it must be universally applicable. It cannot people and not apply to another group of people. It c Vedic science, and we say it is a Vedic science, it ha applicable. Limited applicability is not acceptable. S understand what is attracting whom.
And hence the name Krishna. The name Krishna has power to attract. And what is attracting you is Krish you. The way in which God attracts you, you will fe will take shelter in Him. That taking shelter, ashraya define as God. And that definition of God is very pe from one human being to another. Even in an organi lets say, like ISKON, somebody will say I like Kri will say I like Krishna. Their definition of Krishna organization will be totally different because they ar all depends on what you are expecting from Him. Y they say in Vishnusahasranam. Vishnu has a thousan a thousand people Vishnu is in a thousand different of it. It is just that what is attracting you. And this is And how do you find out? By saying Hare Rama Kr get to know about yourself. By saying Rama you ge your guru. By saying Krishna you get to know what Akarsha. And when you know these three things you found. You havent come into this world to walk aro go away. There must be a purpose for which you cam will know the purpose through Hare Rama Krishna. self-realization. Through Rama you will have knowl with Krishna you will know what is it that you came you. So Hare Rama Krishna will always guide you. from knowledge hatred will always go away. When no place for hatred. Hatred and knowledge cannot ex hate something because you do not know about it. T then there is no hatred left.
(To a student) You have spent a long time with Amm much love she has got for everybody, how much aff
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much love she has got for everybody, how much aff much energy is required to even shake hands with p thousands and thousands. Right? So unless somebod someone expel all hatred from their heart? To love s attribute of us. Do you see that? So the knowledge h when knowledge is at such a high level then only ca remover of ignorance, the giver of knowledge. Do y
So like that we have to understand what attracts us. what attracts us and then we will get the knowledge Hare Rama Krishna and we are required to recite thi after waking up. By doing that, every morning, day time, we will evolve and change and we become mo everybody. We find time to do good things for other nice to us because we are nice to the world. Or in ot
world to be nice to us. We dont allow the world to b Krishna is very important. You must recite it. Wheth this mantra? No, you do not need any diksha for this mantra. Prasiddha mantras are those mantras for wh diksha. The mantra will fructify at any time, by anyb other prasiddha mantras are like Om Namah Shivay Namah. These are prasiddha; you do not need anyb of course if you can get a diksha theres nothing like start doing it. Wake up and start doing it.
OK, now what else is necessary? Nothing is mandat your good. Nothing, none of the things Im telling y it, it is very good for you. Otherwise you will take m not that you will not learn. You will take more time not open up the heart. If you do not open up the hear will the knowledge come into you? That is why som the knowledge and some people like Mr. Freedom a now? 23? Something like that. In three years, four y to almost half the astrologers in the world. How long Some of the best astrologers in America cannot stan so. What is the magic that happened? Did I do some knowledge came into his head? What is it that made quickly, in such a short while, two years? How long Sarbani for Jyotish? Three years, right? And people her knowledge of Jyotish. All I am tellingPage you is ope 10 of 81
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her knowledge of Jyotish. All I am telling you is ope open your heart year after year will pass by and you those small little concepts because it is you who is o The obstruction is not from outside. Am I being und obstruct this learning. Why are you stopping the lear Rama Krishna. Hare Rama Krishna. Thank you.
03 Guna Introduction
OK, so now we can take the next step. The Brihatara Upanishad is the best Upanishad to understand rebir Brihataranyaka Upanishad. Aranyaka means the jun complete isolation and meditate upon why this rebir purpose of the creation, you will understand karma. because of karmas even that with karmas. We all tak karmas that could not be forgiven. That is daridra ka karma that is sticking which does not leave your bod The soul is not being forgiven for certain things and own desires also.
So we take birth again and again, and again and that Every spiritual guru has said the same thing. I am no the jyotishis first thing is to know that the human b creatures birth is because of karma. And it is for us karmas that cause birth. If you cannot find that from know Jyotish. The day you are able to clearly tell wh person has taken birth you know something about Jy first target. Our first target is to learn why a person h out what experiences this soul must have in this birt experiences the anubhava shall cause knowledge.
There are different ways of learning. What are the w out what are the ways to learn, OK? How do you fin learn? Please read Nyaya Shastra. Nyaya tells us how learning is done. Through experience, through instru different ways to learn. So please find out what are t learn. And unless you know the ways in which a per make a prediction about what experiences hes goin what is relationship, what is going to school? This is
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what is relationship, what is going to school? This is Anubhava, ways of learning. So, you are having all different schools that you are going to. When you go you are going to learn. The soul is going to learn, fro soul learns then really he is forgiven his sin.
What is sin? Sin is that which is caused out of ignor caused out of desire. There are two kinds of sins. Al two groups. One that is caused out of ignorance and wrong desires. That which is caused out of wrong de
coming from rajo guna, rajas. And that which is cau tamas. Sattva guna cannot cause sin. It is a sinless st gunas. The three gunas are, guna means attribute. Th attribute. So the soul has three attributes and these th rajas and tamas. The soul must learn to transcend th transcending the three gunas, is called gunatita. Gun the three gunas. When the soul transcends all the thr get moksha. Otherwise it does not get moksha. You beyond the gunas. Then only has that soul got moks guna it will manifest again. It will take birth again. E rebirth. So you have to go beyond the gunas to get m being understood? So there are three gunas or three sattva, the sinless state. So simply because you do n not mean you will get moksha. You can tell God, lo Like my bank balance, my sin balance. Right? No d so I should get moksha. No, simply because you stil come back. Youll go to a higher plane of conscious but you will come back to this planet when you catc Because so long as you exist you cannot escape karm cannot escape from. Youre trapped in karma. So yo time. Youre constantly doing karma. There is karm even when you breathe that is karma. OK? So, you h study more about these things so that you understan But today we are here to discuss the three gunas, sat that we need to understand creation in the first place There are different concepts of creation. We are stud the eyes of Parashara.
04 Creation According to Parashara

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04 Creation According to Parashara
So when we talk of our vision or our view of karma when we talk of the gunas the entire creation is bein entire body of God, if there is a body. We do not kn Who knows who will tell you, but I do not know Hi is. I do not know. So when we talk of our vision or o very honest with you today, because I do not know. maybe I can tell you. I do not know if Ill have word
Whatever Narayana is, one-fourth (or a quarter) of t be the evolver. That which is evolving. What is evol is changing constantly. Only a quarter of It is chang of God, in whatever form God exists, is not in the ph quarters is of pure amrita, or pure nectar. Amrita is t cannot be destroyed, which is indestructible. Amrita which cannot die. There is nothing called death over never a beginning. So that is beyond normal human comprehension must have a beginning and an end. T brains. That means we are mentally very low creatur What is taught to us is that we are mentally very hig
OK, when we talk of Narayana, the three-quarters o quarters which are pure amrita of which does not ma sattva, rajas and tamas and in these three gunas the L His own Self, as three parts of His own being. Its li an atma. Let us say, this flower is an atma. It has go portion and a green portion. So there are three differ flower. This is Narayana. If this flower I say is Nara is sattva which I say is Vishnu, just a name. One thir and one-third is Brahma, rajas. So these three are on differentiation. At that level there is no differentiatio be done for us for our little minds.
OK, and then the remaining one-fourth we then brea remaining one-fourth is evolving and we call that re Jagannath. Jagannath the Lord of the universe and w universe is a manifestation of that evolution. The un that entire evolution hence it is Jagannath. The word Banares and ask what is Shivas highest name and th
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Banares and ask what is Shivas highest name and th Shiva is Shiva. Shiva to Shiva Jagannatham. The rea Jagannath. The real name of Vishnu is Jagannath. T Jagannath. You see, Jagannath, the Lord of the univ evolver because the entire physical creation is comin
time cycle changes it will again be destroyed. Again will be destroyed. So two things are happening: one physical world and one is the creation of the physica world is like there is a vacuum over here, let us say, whole universe is coming, expanding into it and then inside. Again the day comes it comes out; again the universe is getting destroyed. So there are two parts having sattva guna and raja guna. Right? In which th So, of the remaining one-fourth we have two parts. O Jagannath there are two parts in it. One part in which creation and one part in which there is the complete whole universe that man knows, or even that portion whole physical creation is only one-eighth part of th matter how much of science we develop, no matter h man will have as a man, so long as his intelligence i cannot know more than one-eighth of the Lord. The only one-eighth.
Prakriti and Purusha are all parts of the remaining on manifested universe. The physically manifested univ manifested? When we say there are two aspects to it and one is the created aspect. That means the uncrea the created aspect is a portion . Let us first come to w Before we go into how it was created. Right? When you say there is a world there is a universe, but unle can I study it? I cant study anything unless I divide logically study it so how do I do it? This entire mani manifested universe, I divide into three parts called Bhu means the earth or the earth plane. Everything t Every knowledge you need about planet earth is call entire solar system of which the earth is a part. And solar system which is a part of the Milky Way. That called the bhuva loka or the bhuvah. And then there even beyond the solar system, far, far away. That is
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even beyond the solar system, far, far away. That is are three parts of the physically manifested universe perspective. The most important place is bhu loka where we will go after death and swargaloka where higher achievements, depending upon how much fre being understood? So there the physically manifeste Bhu,Bhuvah, swaha. That is why the one-eighth par Vasudeva. And Vasudeva, that is the physically evo swaha. Am I being understood? Then there are parts which are not accessible to human beings. They are said to be maha loka, tapa loka, jana loka and satya the remaining one-third of Jagannath which is not ac These are the other four lokas. They are called the sp spiritual planes of existence. So you see the higher b lokas. And they because of their karma came down say someone has come from Satya Loka he has com plane of the created universe. Right? Am I being un
So these lokas are very important because they are t evolving all the time. The one-eighth part of Naraya changing. So the seven lokas or the seven worlds are which is changing all the time. There is a day and th changing all the time. The remaining three-eighths t night. Nothing. There is no change. Because there is is taking place only in this one-fourth and in this one spiritual lokas and three material lokas. The four spi guna and rajas guna. There is no tamas. There is no lokas. Which are the four spiritual lokas? Maha, jan maha, jana, tapa and satyam.
Now we will do one mantra to remember these seve in the Mahanarayana Upanishad. It is a part of the G given to the sannyasis for learning and understandin intends to transcend all the seven lokas. You see? W evolution is taking place in the seven lokas to get m the seven lokas and then only will you reach a state evolution. Do you get my point? Even if you do grea loka you will still come back. You spoke the truth, y your life, you live a perfectly righteous life, you go
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back. There is no escape. To get out of it you have t and then you will go into one of those higher planes evolution and where there is no more evolution it m back. Am I being understood now very clearly? OK So the mantra is like this, it is: Aum bhuh, Aum bhuvah, Aum swahah, Aum mahah, Aum janah, Aum tapah, Aum satyam Tat savitur vareniyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yonah pracodayat Aum apo jyoti raso amrtam Brahma bhur bhuvas suvar om
OK? This is the mantra for transcending the seven lo the Gayatri mantra. You see the Gayatri mantra whi Brahmanas who wish to transcend all the seven loka back in the seven lokas. They ask the strength from
supposed to be the tarabija. The seed of tara. It is th mantra shastras you will realize the meaning of the w for me to say anything now. Learn the bija of Tara. T taraka. The word taraka means to cross, to transcend you say Aum bhuh, you are going beyond bhuh loka loka. Aum bhuvah, you go beyond bhuvah loka. Au swarga loka. Like that. With each Aum you are actu of these. God is helping you to cross with Aum. Aum does Aum help you to cross? How does Aum help u composed of three aksharas: A, U, M. Three so sounds A, U, M, when they come together they three sounds were known or what we say, were hear they meditated on Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara rishis who got these three sounds are Gautama, who got the akshara A. Atri, have you heard of Atri? Th
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got the akshara A. Atri, have you heard of Atri? Th ayurveda should know Atri. Atri meditated on U. H And Bharadhvaja, the third rishi got M from Mahe has Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in it. Aum helps us t Brahma, satttva guna Vishnu, and tamo guna Shiva. we come out of tamas. With the blessings of Brahm above rajas. And with the blessings of Vishnu we ev deities are nothing but forms of the same one God w these gunas. The translations you find in normal jyo guna. This is a very pathetic translation. Shiva is not helps us to transcend ignorance. Tamo guna is ignor Shiva is the penultimate guru, is the guru for the gur beyond ignorance. That is why Shiva is helping us t supposed to be the nila shakti. Because of the nila sh helps us to cross over the tamo guna of ignorance. W dwelling in ignorance all the time. You cannot even you go to other lokas. OK? You will be stuck in this You want to take one step out of this creation you ne Shiva it is impossible. Without Him you can never c
Same way, without Brahma you can never cross ove will always overcome you. All the time your greed w your problems. And in Kali Yuga even worship of B cannot worship Brahma directly. And there are reaso we worship Ganesha instead. And some say we need and Ganesha put together gives us Brahma. OK? So Aum? Do you realize that Aum is not one word? It i is composed of three tiny bits of sound, A, U, and M sound have rajas, sattva and tamas. And to transcend or three forms of God which are helping us to transc crossing over these three gunas. Aum is helping us t gunas, to cross over the three gunas. So long as you will come back to this planet. The word guna means have learnt now the sapta lokas and we have learned four parts of Narayana.
05 Bhu Loka, Atma

How does physical creation work? What is physical
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How does physical creation work? What is physical come to another part of creation. See, we are coming God, then we came to the evolver, that which is cha changing. Then we found out that portion, which is which is changing. There is a nonphysical part, a spi physical part. Now from the physical part we have n this world. We have found three worlds. What are th earth plane which is our focus, our focal point of ear loka. All the planets are there and all the stars are th Milky Way. And then svarga loka which is the whol in the universe. Right? So now we bring our focus d microscope each time to increase our focus. We com earth plane. All this creation in this world can be div which we call the material creation, and one which w the living beings. So there is a living world and ther very simple differentiation. When you were in schoo That there is a whole living world and there is a non living world there is a plant kingdom and there is an learned that, is it not, exactly the same thing as taug
The Bhagavad Gita teaches that in this world there a jadatma; jada, atma. Jada means that which is stuck, own, cannot procreate on its own. Jadatma, it is stuc cannot continue. A stone cannot procreate. Have you The only way it can procreate is to break it into piec procreation because a new stone has not come, it is j stone.
The living beings are called jivatma. Jiva plus atma. it simply means self. Atma means me, myself. The o into later. So we have jivatmas and we have jadatma horoscopes or we can have a star position, a chart of starting moment, the moment of the creation of eithe Imagine if you were born as a tree, imagine living th jivatma, it is a living being. It has feeling, it has sens anybody else. It responds to music, it has been estab you were born as a tree or a plant. You cannot move that little piece of land that has been allotted to you. God knows how many years, especially seeing the r karmic thousand year life, and you are stuck in that.
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karmic thousand year life, and you are stuck in that. world come and go, you are seeing man come, fight karma, you are seeing centuries and centuries of kar
So firstly, the length of life is something very karmi
karma. When you are born it is already written in yo This is today a scientifically established fact. Yester saying that you cannot calculate that, that it depends doing and what food you are eating, that is all bogus the date of your death written in it. So lets be clear if I can draw a map of the heavens and I have the me calculate the moment of death, if I can decipher the
So this differentiation of jivatmas and jadatmas is ca differentiation. And the difference between jivatma jadatma, or the non-living world cannot procreate. T differentiation which we will use later when we stud the non-living world we cannot have putrakaraka. T significator for children so they must have seven cha jivatmas, which are procreating, we must have eight
When we study all these incarnations, we look at the stable the way we look at it because in space everyth on the viewpoint of the observer. Since for us planet place in the world, so earth is kept stable at the cente around it. That is called the geocentric viewpoint an used in Jyotish because you have bhu loka, or the ea bhuvah loka, and around that much further away is t galaxies and the stars. And this earth plane is suppos
jivatmas or the living beings. It is a fact, who is the beings are the boss of the earth and among living be is dominating the planet earth? The living beings are are not. The jivatmas. Everything in astrology there symbology, every thing is decided by symbols. So th Mars, energy. Mars is dominating over this loka call Mars is called Bhumiputra, or the child of the earth. over earth is Mars and the rules of this planet Mars w Whoever shall have the highest physical strength sh the highest fighting force shall be the ruler, that is th
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the highest fighting force shall be the ruler, that is th of the children of Mars is called Mrityu [Death]. Th children. A graha is different from a planet. Graha is symbolic, it is symbolic of an energy, of a kind of en say Mars is the symbol of the policeman, it doesnt m the policeman. Mars is in the sky, it is a planet in the representing is symbolized by the policeman. Its all important for you to understand. It is all reflection.
So when we have the jivatma and jadatma, naturally which is living. And God, what is God? God in one ultimate. That atma which is beyond the three gunas gunas. That means the soul which can manifest with an unmanifested state, beyond the gunas. That mean gunas is free of the gunas but is still staying beyond Paramatma. Because of Paramatma must be gunatita someone is not beyond the gunas, and is affected by can we say he is Paramatma? What is the difference jivatma? The difference is a jivatma always has thre them. The Paramatma also has the three gunas but is under the control of the gunas, the gunas do not dom what the atma must do. He can go beyond the gunas Paramatma. Otherwise he is a jiva.
Now, all creatures, be it a human being, be it this pla have to manifest through grahas. The word graha me grahana, to eclipse. The process of birth is what we birth is but an eclipse, shocking but true. You have t graha and physically brought down to this planet as bhu loka is ruled by mars, police. The real significat jails, exactly the way jails are used. Think of a jail, w in a jail? Exactly in the same way you will live on th earth is a jail, there is no escape from it, like Alcatra clear about it. You will come back and back and bac keep coming back, you are a criminal. Your crime y come back to this jail. This is a jail, Mars rules this l jail? The police officer. Similarly of bhu loka, whoe physical strength, he will be the boss. Why is Ameri nations? Whether people accept it or not, America is Why is it bossing around? Because it has the maxim Page 20 of 81
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Why is it bossing around? Because it has the maxim you ask America to throw away its fighter planes an listen to that? Why is India dominating like that ove Because of its guns and the military. Simple rule, wh have greatness. Alexander is great because he spent and fighting wars. He did not spend 32 years medita name the great names in history. What do you read i up your history books and read all the great names i and murderers. History does not remember people w Why? Because they are not the rules of this loka. Th different. But we are jyotishis; we are supposed to g and see everything from a birds eye view.
OK, so now the jivatmas and the Paramatma. Are yo difference? What is the single most important factor from jivatma? The Paramatma is beyond the gunas, most important factor. So the grahas and the process the process of birth. How does birth take place. Grah does an eclipse occur? The sun and the moon come eclipse? The sun and the moon come together and R And that is the moment of grahana or eclipse. That i conception. The conception is an exactly similar pro (mind) and this atma and mana are put together in a stuck, the atma and the mana are stuck together. And You are so badly stuck that you cannot get unstuck. now going to be a dog. It says OK, Im a dog. So stuck in the womb of its mother. Before that the atm did not know who he was. He did not have ahamkar ahamkara, you do not know who you are, because y your own. What is ahamkara? Ahamkara means iden means identity, the first simple translation. He says womb of the mother and that body he will get is call sexual organ because he will come out from the fem physical evolution onto this planet will be from the f female sexual organ is the door for coming into this female sexual organ is a triangle and that triangle wh door for you to get into this planet. Similarly when y means the opposite. See the triangle, it is like this, fl downwards. It means coming down to this planet, th
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downwards. It means coming down to this planet, th this planet. When you turn it up it becomes a symbo the triangle pointing upwards is the door for going o triangle facing down is called Kali, the primary Mot the evolution. In the evolution I said the spirit being guna and rajas guna. Sattva guna is shri shakti, Shri bhu shakti or Saraswati. The bija is hrim. There are shrim, hrim and krim to understand. So sattva guna and tama guna transcendence is krim. Remember th hrim, krim. Shrim is sattva, hrim is rajas and krim is What is om? A, U, M. A is rajas, U is Vishnu that is is transcending tamas. Now in the same order put th hrim, Bhudevi who is the spouse of Brahma, Sarasw Then shrim then krim. Hare, Rama, Krishna. We we us was a spirit being. We had only two gunas. In the spirit beings we had only two gunas. We were either two. But to come into the world we needed tamo gu you cannot manifest physically. For physical manife tamas.
So who is the mother who is causing you to take bir That is why she is the earth goddess; that is why she earth. Shrim and hrim you are already having, in wh spirit form. When you come to this planet you must after birth you have shrim, hrim and krim. So earlier and now you have shrim, hrim and krim. What is the krim. Because of krim you have been able to take bi entire protection on this planet earth has been assign there is no protection, this moment you will die. Do importance of krim or Kali? Do you understand her doing every moment? Every moment she is protectin the mother who is constantly protecting you because spouse is the protecting strength.
So, these are the gunas. And Shiva, who is Mahakal protective mother, are helping us transcend and und must. So the worst experiences we have in this life a are related to tamas guna. The good experiences wh related to sattva guna but that is not something wort
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related to sattva guna but that is not something wort have learned. But you still have to learn something v you have those good experiences you must not beco transcend it. You have to transcend the guna. When should not have any effect on you, that means you h When you get a large amount of money you should party. If you do so, you are in rajas. It does not make receive money or give money; you have transcended position, authority, domination over others, status, a played in this world, when you transcend that, you h life, the true spiritual learning is transcending sattva gunatita.
06 Avatars
Now we talk of avatars which is the second chapter Shastra. In this chapter we are taught that there are t meaning of the word avatar? It is a very common En means avatar. Reincarnation applies to a person who
again. The same person is reincarnating. So when w incarnation not a reincarnation. Avatar, there are ma avatar, I am an avatar. We are all avatars. What is th avatar of God and an avatar of whatever? The defini must be one that must transcend the gunas. If the av gunas and is going to dwell in the gunas or is going gunas, then he is no avatar at all.
Since birth must take place through grahana, throug jyotish we have navagraha or nine modes of eclipse, different kinds of grasping that will get hold of you The word graha is from grahana, its a very negative word. And the translation as planet is totally wrong. to do with eclipse and that is how you are born. You this planet. And as soon as you come to this planet y the guru of SJC. How foolish you are. Were you Sa last birth? No; will you be so in your next birth? No can you say you are? It is just an eclipse of your min you are that. So it is this mind that is eclipsing the so soul? It is your own mind. Nobody else is doing it. I
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soul? It is your own mind. Nobody else is doing it. I you that you are somebody which you are not. So th own mind and your own soul, no third party. That is
So the relationship between the Sun and the Moon, s
mind is called tithi, and that is the grahana. That is t to be born. So these grahas, the navagrahas, the nine which beings take birth. All beings, even the Parama on planet earth he cannot break this rule. He has to c to. There are ways to calculate which graha is causin There is something called janma vighaatika graha. Y that janma vighaatika graha gives us an idea of who kind of eclipse that caused your birth. And that will take birth as a man or as a woman. Your sex, man, w all be decided by that one planet. It is more importan important than everything. It is called janma vighaat birth, vigatika is a time measure, graha, the eclipse t point. Can I use the word planet and you will not mi the word graha. So the graha will decide what is hap
These avatars, or the manifestations of God, are said incarnations of the grahas. Or in other words, when follow the rules of Mars. They have to. Our exercise why these incarnations are supposed to be those of G they have, in what way did they manifest that they w attribute of God? How did it happen?
07 Matsya
Let us start with Matsya avatar. Matsya avatar is the story goes like this: there was a king and he had a be little fish; he found little fish in a pond. The fish had put the fish in an aquarium and would feed the fish. would do? He fed the fish. So feeding fishes is a goo are there in the Puranas are also telling us what we s negativities attributed to our graha. The fish incarna planet Ketu. What does Ketu indicate? Ketu is the la of tamas guna. Tamas means destruction, so Ketu is
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of tamas guna. Tamas means destruction, so Ketu is terrible destruction, a very sudden deluge, and that i when the king fed the fish the fish became bigger an the entire aquarium. So they took the fish out and pu said make a pond. They fed the fish more and the fis king said, whoa, what kind of a fish is this that we g bigger and bigger. He probably hadnt seen whales. California. Then the fish became so big in the pond So then the fish told him Oh king, I have become to your good that you should put me in the sea. So they put him in the sea, and then the fish went away in th there was rain and the rain went on and on and there and everything started drowning in the rain. The wh in the rain.
It is symbolic of our own lives. When terrible rains c everything gets destroyed around. Everything starts is drowning around us. It is symbolic, the planet Ket indicating such a state in our lives where everything destroyed.
At that point in time the seven sages came to the kin has come for the whole world to be destroyed. The b incarnated near you and it is you who have been goo is an incarnation of the Lord.
The king said, how can you say that this fish is an i
They said of course, he is, because he is going to tr destruction. When everything will be destroyed he i So the savior is a symbol of God and he will help yo destruction. And when the destruction stops he will from there again there shall be creation.
So the king sat on a boat with the seven rishis and th them. And they pushed the boat into the sea without without oars. Do not try to steer your own life. Wh around you know that your own brain is clouded. Yo thinking; surrender to one of the Rishis. There are se
surrender to the Rishis and to the Vedas. There are n
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surrender to the Rishis and to the Vedas. There are n oars you are not going to guide your life. If you try i to let go of those oars; sit down in the boat quietly. P those Rishis are the ones whose energy will call God and prayed Om namo bhagavate mahamatysaya bhagavate mahamatsaya. Bhagavate means an inca great, matsya: fish. Matsyaya means fish. Om namo There is a remaining mantra given in the Bhagavata mantra. And the fish incarnation came. And they thr the boat. The seas became rough and terrible and wh destroyed. The fish incarnation pulled the boat with king in it and the four Vedas through the whole dest some time the rain stopped and they found land and And that is how the new life started.
It is symbolic of stages of somebodys life. So the fi Paramatma. Why does it symbolize Paramatma? Be over, to transcend this destruction. Everything was d ark. When you read about Noahs ark you will unde destruction around you and you have to let go. That coming into your life, so let go. Take shelter in the R mantras properly. And then he will come and guide storm. So the symbol of God is he who can help you Paramatma. Even at the stage of complete destructio they were not crying, they were not running to save did they try to save? The Vedas, knowledge. That m destruction occurs, when you die, only the Vedas wi knowledge will come with you. Nothing else will co
The fish incarnation is symbolic of death in our live transcend are the seven Rishis who sit as the guides will help you to transcend the lokas through Vidya, incarnation who will pull you through you all this. A will give you moksha and take you to this little land come back again. And give you a new existence wh born anymore. That is why Ketu is mokshakaraka. T Sapta Rishis up in the sky, you can see them. They a seven which is ruled by Ketu also. So when you do fish incarnation story, the Matsya avatar story we kn
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fish incarnation story, the Matsya avatar story we kn has to do with Ketu, the graha Ketu. So people who of a month, know that Ketu is very strong in your ch people who are born on twenty-five, these are the th that Ketu must be a strong influence in your chart. S the fish incarnation.
Why does the fish have to do with Ketu? Because he was the fish who pulled you out. But why is Ketu in with the fish? He is headless, that is the attribute. Yo
your head. Remember I told you that. The king was dont use your head. When you will steer with the st you row? Forget it; the sea is so terrible that you wil will go, with your boat you will go in the water. For surrender the oars. We will pray and Matsya avatar head of yours is your worst enemy. Your own mind moksha? Your own mind is your enemy. There are n the important message. That is why Ketu is headless go of the oars. Keep that in mind. Dont try steering work. Just surrender to the Rishis, sit down quietly o Dont try to understand what the mantra is going to it. Do it and you will see the difference. That is the l try to reason it does not work because it is the reason is the mind that has caused the eclipse, so what excu is like the bully trying to tell you that you must do th are a bully so naturally you will do that. The mind is the bully. And the tormented one is your own soul. T your own mind. That is the entire lesson of the Mats indicates the great escape where you lose your head mind. That is why they said Ketu is the one who ecl the soul to come out. That is why when in anyones to be terribly afflicted you give a cats eye. Cats ey Ketu will break everything and take the soul out, sav
The important thing you must understand about Ket away our oars. So who is the oar? The fish. Who is g has to steer and propel us, right? Somebody has to s fish is going to do that. And how does the fish do it? entire direction, all the propulsion, is coming from t
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entire direction, all the propulsion, is coming from t vibration of the tail is causing the fish to move. The The submarines follow this propulsion of the fishes. back as well as a fan, a turbine which is actually pro intuitive flow with the currents. A huge wave is abo go. Even before the wave comes you must know abo Intuitive flow comes from Ketu. Then you should no and see what follows, now what will I do. The mom you are gone. You have to use your intuition. That i intuition. Fishes have great intuition. Observe the fis you will understand all about Ketu. That is the impo study the fish to understand Ketu. So, if you want th favorable that after you die you will get a direction, through, at least symbolically. Do not kill fish. Do n feed the fish. When you are in great danger and Ketu life give some food to the fishes and you will come important message for us.
(Q) Is there a problem with keeping fish in aquarium
(S) Our king started with an aquarium. So long as yo looking after them, what is the problem? When the f supposed to release them back into the waters. How fish back? We dont. When the fish become big you them. You are not supposed to wait for them to die o eat it.
That is the reason why, at least after listening to this more and more, you will start loving the fish, youll And youll see that fishes are a symbol of God. So t nature; we cant destroy fishes. So naturally you can important thing about this lesson of this avatar it tell the fishes, somewhere, some energy is being release connection is being made somewhere by which you time of destruction comes. The deluge is a symbol o death. Death or almost death like situation. When yo passing through such a stage in your life which is lik intuition that will save you. It is the Rishis that will Vedas that will carry you through. The knowledge a else comes with you after death. That is the importa
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else comes with you after death. That is the importa avatar.
08 Varaha Avatar, Birth, Pranapada
The next avatar is the Sri Varaha Avatar. Varaha Av We talked of death now? We talk of birth right now boar incarnation. Parasara has used the word sukara avatar is om namo bhagavate sukaraya. Sukara, the When you breathe hard it makes a sound su. And su Because you are breathing. Youre not dead; when y so breathing is an auspicious thing. Think very calm bad? Try holding your breath for one hour and you w good or bad. So the breathing is an important facet o you start breathing? As soon as you are born. That m very important story for the astrologers. It is definin talking of Matsya Avatar as the definition of death a seven lokas and the four Vedas as the basis by whic seven lokas. Similarly we shall talk of rebirth becau Rahu. Rahu is the cause of rebirth. Rahu is the god o born because of desire. If we did not have desires le
(Q) Does that mean that the moment of the first brea on the...
(S) Right. The name that Parasara uses is such a bea name of a pig. Sukara means pig. That word, that na makes that sound because his breathing is like a gru heavy; heavy breath. Sukara means pig. See the brea word sukara is su kara not shukara. It is su, sa, heavily. He is auspicious, he is causing you to breath life. You have died and come back to life because of He has caused you to incarnate again and again and endless incarnations. These endless incarnations are incarnation means when you start breathing. So birth breath. Prathama prana, or the first breath. That is w pranapada. A thing called pranapada where the calcu called pranapada. We see breathing from there. Hav
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called pranapada. We see breathing from there. Hav Right down this word: pranapada. Pada means feet. breathing. Each breath is a foot, is one step, and the are going to take in this world is fixed. So pranapada somebody has pranapada in Aquarius he is a gentlem slowly. He says good eeevening Sanjaaay. He is a slowly; the breath is coming out so slowly. How ar the breath came out. See he is a cultured gentleman. Aquarius the breath is slow because Saturn is slow.
If pranapada, or the breath, is in Leo the breathing is The breath is strong, well grounded, there is no fear. cool while everybody else is shaking. The breathing fear because the Sun does not falter. Have you ever Have you ever in astrology, many people have been you seen the Sun go very fast or very slow? No, he steady, perfect yogic breathing is pranapada in Leo. Yogic breathing means pranapada in Leo. Your brea No going up, no going down, perfect and steady.
Pranapada in Cancer: very fast breathing, so you wil very fast planet so you breathe very fast, so you will Cancer is not good. Like that the pranapada in differ kind of breath you are having. Pranapada is called a of breathing. And planets are studied in the horoscop what is stopping your breath. Those of you who hav will find this very important information. In Ayurve the breath. The pranapada will decide how you are b getting obstructed. When will you die. What is death
So now, who means the coming of breath? Ketu me the Varaha Avatar. The Varaha Avatar story is diffe demon, what is his name? Does anyone remember h good with demon names. OK, there was a demon wh havoc, running around trying to take over these wor incarnate. He took the Earth and he threw it into the water. What is Earth? Earth is the world, so your wo in water. When is your world in water? Have you ev You have, you will remember it now. When you we
mother. The demon threw your world in water. Who
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mother. The demon threw your world in water. Who eclipsed you? Your atma was put in a cage and the m And the demon Rahu eclipsed it. Demon, see that? R that world in the stomach of the mother. So it was in water. And at that point of time all the ghosts started protect the world. So what happened then? Brahma creator started meditating. And from his breath - see - a little boar came out from his nose with the breath grunting sounds, and the boar started becoming big, happens to the little seed that is planted in the mothe big, big, big at a very fast rate. A tiny little seed has nine months. See the speed at which it has grown. L has come out of a little piece of hair from the nose o boar. And it was making grunting sounds. It was bre called sukara. Sukara means breathing heavily. And bristles, his hair was like bristles. A detailed descrip description. You can study the description carefully
Then the head came out and this came out. It is like creation. So at that point of time the boar heard that shook his head. And in his teeth he had big tusks, so come out. And then he jumped into the water and he took it out of the water, and then put the world in the does that mean? That means from the water in your exposed to this world of air, and you started breathin the air and you started breathing. Your whole world stomach suddenly has become this whole world arou of birth. The entire Varaha Avatar story is the world created being. What was the soul doing in the stoma important lesson does it tell us? That is, a mother wh who is pregnant, if she worships the Varaha Avatar bhagavate sukaraya, the name used is sukara, not va sukaraya. Then her child will breathe. That means th will breathe. It is such an important mantra. It is a m astrologer, even if you do it for somebody else, can
How do we see God in this Varaha Avatar? How do role did God play? How do we see the hand of God? only at the moment of birth. The world was falling i
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only at the moment of birth. The world was falling i were happening, was taking place, conception was t world was about to be destroyed, in the last month, a Avatar jumps in and takes the world out of the wom this. That moment of birth when he takes it out of th air is a moment worth praising a million times becau life. See the Varaha Avatar saved life. Yet at that mo whole world is being destroyed, when the world is s is sinking it is fully destroyed by this tremendous su used has been explained in the Madhusudana Stotra. Garbhavasam maha dukha swahi mam madhusudan
Garbhavasam means sitting in the womb of the moth greatest sorrow that any soul can get because the sou seen a baby, how cramped it is in this little room, th move around. It is cramped inside that, like a tree or youre stuck. Maha dukha, it is great sorrow. (Q) Is that why it is called kumbhi patna? (S) Yes, that is right. It is like kumbha rasi.
You are totally trapped in that, you cant get out. Yo out, you dont know where to go. No knowledge, no are. It is a terrible sorrow, a sorrow that is unmatche never see again in this world. On this planet Earth y than you saw in the home of your mother. That is th soul can see. And to take you out from that sorrow a mother has to go through, and the enormous danger and infections and death and whatever. The moment and most difficult moment. They say that the mothe than that in her life. It is a most difficult and painful terrible pain to the mother and the great sorrow to th moment. At one moment they are ending. The whol
sorrow finishes and great joy is there all around. Yo has changed. Terrible pain, suddenly it finishes. All seen, suddenly finishes, and suddenly the baby is bo celebrating and is smiling and happy. So who took y and terrible sorrow and suffering? The Varaha Avat
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Similarly, when you are under the terrible attack of and you cant move around and cant do anything, y jail, like going to jail, people go to jail, trapped. The Varaha Avatar you will be carried away from that. T be sure of it, with the mantra om namo bhagavate su
09 Vamana
So we were talking last about Sri Varaha Avatar, rig we learned about these two avatars, the two extreme are after death and before birth. In your existence yo and these are points after death that is Ketu, and bef Rahu and Ketu are without bodies. That means you Ketu mean you dont exist. You are without bodies. have the power of eclipsing without a body. They ec such destruction in your lives which is like taking bi transformations occur, something has to be destroye
So these are transformational changes that happen. S making an indicator of a change in our life it means very trying part of our lives.
So the first thing we talked about was Matsya Avata Varaha Avatar. Varaha was Sukaraya, om namo bha avatar we will talk about is the Vamana Avatar. Vam manifestation of all the energies of Jupiter. He is cal name, when he was born and as a kid, was Upendra. Upendra. But at that time he was born in a brahmin little in height, a small kid. Very young in age but he and all the scriptures and the entire body of Vedic li even by the time he was in his teens. Just like Adi S Tremendous knowledge. And there was the Shukara was the teacher of the demons. And Shukracharya to was Bali, that listen, Ill tell you some secret mantra mantras you will become very powerful. You will b will become master of the three worlds. This God an and all is madness. This whole world of people, espe have gone mad. They are following Bhagavan, they
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have gone mad. They are following Bhagavan, they are trying to meditate. Can you imagine what sort of become? They are meditating, taking the name of G you have to be king, if you have to be boss, you hav materialism. The materialistic philosophy that he wh boss, that money is everything in life, that youve go that money will rule the world, nobody gets food. Th that is what will be taught. That was Shukracharyas
So shall finish the Shukracharyas work and get dow So you see Shukracharya was always the material be come on, why are you listening to the guru? Why ar That is Shukracharya. This is all bogus, concentrate master is wasting your time by talking about all thes Venus, the power of enjoyment of this world. Enjoy wasting your time listening to this fellows talk abou scriptures? This is all bogus. So Shukracharya wante the worlds. And Bali listened to Shukracharya and h mantras and things and he became all-powerful. And powerful the demons - what are the demons? The de in the materialistic view of life. That is, your mind i you want to live permanently in this world but you w madness, that obsession about money is the cause of behavior. All the goodness goes away from you, wit goes away. All the evil qualities come inside you be money.
Somewhere youve got to let go, somewhere youve thin line and you should not cross over that thin line
mercy, you must not forget the dana, that is to give. that is to have mercy. And the third one, dama, to co is very important. The three das: daya, dama, and d Shukracharya said forget all this it is bogus, and just stronger and stronger. At that point of time Bali dec yagya, and that yagya, he said, if he finishes that yag master of the three worlds. Which are the three worl swarga loka. In all the three worlds he will have the could not take it anymore. Brihaspati said This is th perish today. Today dharma will perish once and for
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perish today. Today dharma will perish once and for are in the skies, please save us.
And this little brahmin who was there decided, OK, on, let me go over there. So Upendra went to visit th brahmin clutching his kamandalu, his water pot, and his weapon was his mala. He had no more weapons, blessing. And he throws the water over you with the changes. Thats what he is, Upendra. And he went o king. There was a queue of brahmins and priests and take alms from him. The king had said I am the kin whatever you want, I will give you. So people were for wealth of all kinds, and he was giving it away.
At that point of time Upendra came. The little brahm asking the king Who is this little brahmin who has What do you want little fellow?
So he said, Are you sure you will give me whateve
The king said Of course I will give you whatever y
Now at that point of time Shukracharya, who was a also a brahmin. He has known jyotish sastra. There a one Shukras path and one Brihaspatis path. All the There will be two kinds of astrologers, one who will and one who will follow the path of Jupiter, Brihasp immediately could foresee what was going to happe astrology, jyotish, he saw what was going to happen that little brahmin you will give him nothing and ask
The king said Whats wrong with you? If I ask him the world, I will become the laughing stock of the w holding a little thing, what is he going to ask me? W cannot give him? He cannot ask me for my kingdom There are certain rules to what he can ask.
So he then did the sankalpa and didnt listen to Shuk

Shukracharya tried to tell him something. At that po
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Shukracharya tried to tell him something. At that po picked up a blade of grass. The blade of grass is ver mind. The blade of grass, the durva grass has the po Venus. Whenever you are having a Venus-related pr grass and say the mantra of Ganesha. If you pick up the mantra of Ganesha, Shukra will become blind. A he cannot do anything. His power is in his eyes. Shu eyes, so if he becomes blind he cannot do anything. grass, said the mantra and threw the blade of grass. T bee and it stung Shukracharya in his left eye, and Sh the left eye. He was holding his eye crying Oh my in time he turned and went away. He had to go beca
So then the king went forward and he said OK give the little kid what do you want, tell me what you w
He said I want three steps. I want land for three ste one, step two, and step three. Whatever land is there three feet I will take.
Everybody started laughing. What a fool, the king c ask and you want three steps of land. King if you wa doesnt want anything else. Im not greedy, I dont want anything else, I dont of land.
Why does he want three steps of land? Because thre you measure your feet, three steps, that is the length buried. When you die that is the step that you want t that I need, I dont need anything else. Because if I a have any other want and if I dont have any other wa anything? Only the king understood at that point of brahmin. This one is completely detached, one who He is asking only for three steps so he can be laid in still promised to give you whatever you wanted.
So he did that and the little brahmin was the Vaman means that which is beyond the mana. It is beyond y
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means that which is beyond the mana. It is beyond y crosses, transcends the limits of the mind. See the ki is mana? Mana is the mind, the entire imagination is Vamana is that which is going beyond the mind. Th imagined in his wildest dreams that this little brahm so huge. He started towering and with one step he m everybody said Om bhu. And in the next step he m the entire bhuva loka and swarga loka in just one ste second step he measured it. So huge he had become then Raja Bali had not yet conquered heaven, swarg
yet because Indra was still there. He was about to co So he asked Where should I put my third step? You So the king then realized, he was humbled at that po have not even imagined this. Even my wildest imagi limitations of my mind, you have crossed it, you hav limitations of the mind. And so he bowed. What is And he placed his third step on the head of the king. Bali died. Because as soon as he put his foot over th because the feet are on him, on the head. Now that b bali. And when Bali died, as soon as he died, becaus Vamana is Vishnu, Bhagavan, God Himself, and wh your head, it means he has become your guru.
So that became symbolic of guru-sishya parampara. sishya in Hinduism. The guru has to place his right f sishya. If he does not do that he is not your diksha g has to do that and he should know how to do it. And supposed to show the world to you. If he cannot do knowledge. That is a diksha guru; that is diksha. Wh will be on your head. That is a must, OK? As a part If you have not done that you have not got diksha. A is in three steps. The first step is bhu, that means you attachment. Everything in this material world is fini bhuvah and swarga. That means you are performing son, no father, no brother, no mother, nobody exists you are dead, you are to consider yourself as being d taking sannyasa diksha. Then only you get the final three steps. Then you have got a diksha guru.
Since Vishnu became the guru of Bali, hence Bali w
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Since Vishnu became the guru of Bali, hence Bali w Vishnu then said you are now my sishya. Since you both, your ahamkar is gone. Your ego is finished. If no longer a demon. Hence you deserve to be a king, went on to become the king of one of the lower wor teaches us how we learn from the master. Simply be have money, the guru doesnt have things, do not un What was the king thinking? I am so rich, I am so po I will give it to you. Actually what he has you dont worlds, you have nothing, right? Because he was ab worlds. So the important part of this particular episo how to get moksa. You do not get moksha without a get moksha. And the guru comes from Aum because
Now must we have a guru in the physical form? I do questions that will be answered by the gurus themse treat the Guru Granth Sahib, that is a book, as a guru peculiar thing. In this Kali Yuga it will be very diffi very difficult to find the perfect guru. And also, the
give you diksha. Why will he want to give you? So involved in this. But in any case, if you do the mantr vamanaya, Vamana Avatar, vamanaya, you will tran mind in this body. Being in this body you will transc and the senses. You will not be a slave of your sense senses. By the blessings of the Vamana Avatar, the f loka, to get over the senses. The next step is to get o karma, and the third step is to go into complete sama Avatar and that is the essence of all learning. If your that of what use is the learning? No matter how muc is useless if it is not going to lead you there.
(Q) You mentioned the two types of gurus Shukacha the differences?
(S) The primary difference is that those who follow asuric. They never teach spiritual astrology. They sa nothing works or if it works they will be giving like the water, throw a party and distribute alcohol and p you have donated alcohol. Last night I got a mail fro
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you have donated alcohol. Last night I got a mail fro had gone to an astrologer saying I just wanted to cla an astrologer and he said that Saturn was in some co so with some Venus. So you need to buy a diamond you ever heard of such things? The heights of cheati
spot. Why? Which shastra says this. Why should he you know it is bad for him. Every astrologer worth h Shukracharya represents those astrologers who are o gains. All astrology for them is only for material gai car, buying other things. Only that all the time. They think that if a person has come to be at an astrologer to tell the person at least one mantra or something ab of these words so that something comes into the hea give a one hour reading. You spend fifty-nine minut personal life of the person but at least one minute sa of Brihaspati. All I am saying is I know that you hav in this world but do not forget to do the work of Brih remind the person that he is a spirit being in a mater not going to be with him, so why be attached to the that. That is the basic job of an astrologer. The Vam about our responsibilities. As astrologers we have to cannot afford to be irresponsible because if we are v around us will become totally irresponsible. We wou [ignorance] instead of spreading vidya [knowledge], responsible. It also teaches us an important factor th everything is lost in this world, remember there is al can take shelter. Shelter will always come at the fee always come at his feet, no matter how much you ha because of Shukra.
10 Parasurama
Following this episode of Jupiters winning back of Parashurama Avatar. Parashurama Avatar is the Ven also a graha. Venus was told that, listen just like Jup over teaching and the learning process, Jupiter graha symbolizing all the learning that we do and the ultim knowledge, that is to have spiritual learning. If we d we have no meaning, right? Thats what we learn fro now we come to the Parashurama Avatar. Here the o
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now we come to the Parashurama Avatar. Here the o we have to understand the meaning of all relationshi relationships. The purity of relationship is very, very the purity of the relationship that no sin is accrued. I serious sin, so do not have impure relationships. Be about your relationship with everybody. Here the m lesson of Shukra, that is your attachment should alw Attachment must be to one, not many. You cannot h is not right.
So the Parashurama Avatar, if you see the life story learned, his name was Rama, Parashu means ax. He was a great warrior. How did he become a great war sage in those days called Parashara. He was in the n neighboring ashram to his fathers. He was the son o was the son of a sage, a great sage called Jamadagni the lord of death, Yama. Agni is fire. So Jamadagni he who can conquer the fire of death.. Jamadagni wa Haihayas. The Haihayas were a cannibal tribe. So ca prevalent in India in those days. So you see Parashu after Jamadagni listened to Parashara. Parashara told doing? We are supposed to be teaching the Vedas, w are going giving advice about all this about mantras Haihayas, these cannibals. You are not following dh Haihaya king saw that Jamadagni had left him. He w So the Haihayas got very angry. They retaliated very completely destroyed Jamadagnis ashram, complete his son, called Parashurama, can you imagine? Paras he was taken as captive and kept with the Haihaya k come and work for them in the temple. At the same ashram they also attacked Parasharas ashram and co Parashara was such a brave one. They said the horse chariots and horses were charging, and Parashara we and just put his hand up like that, stop. So they charg could not cross the sage. So the horses pulled back. lead the horses to the charge. The whole army is cha hands up and tells the horse to stop. The horses stop mad. The king realized OK, this Parashara is someb fellow is but he is somebody, he knows something. S to him, picked up his sword, and with the flat side o
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to him, picked up his sword, and with the flat side o him. So then Parashara got very badly injured, his le and he became unconscious. That is how Parashara that Parashara had become lame? Parashara became And his complete ashrama was burned down. The la And at the same time Parashuramas fathers ashram Parasharas ashrama, even that was burned down, hi the Haihayas and kept with them. And Parashurama a terrible time.
So at that point of time Parashurama learned the art realized at that point of time that I got defeated beca fight. I must learn these weapons and these horses fr learned weapons and horses and he designed the wh wheels and he made a chariot, a two-wheeled chario between. He designed all that. So he was a great des it mean? Venus is a designer of vehicles. Venus is th Hes always thinking about beautiful vehicles. So Pa vehicle and he also designed modern weapons to fig formed a very powerful band. And this band he lear formed a band, and he attacked the Haihayas, killed the Haihayas and completely rid the whole western cannibals. (Q) Why did he kill his mother?
(S) Because his father told him to kill his mother. H mother has become totally impure. Shes going and king. So this fellow was so mad he even killed his m (Q) So why didnt they kill the father, the Haihaya.
(S) Because the father (Jamadagni) was the head pri kills their own head priest. It is foolish.
This is the most important episode of the Parashuram course, for twenty-one generations, twenty-one is as destruction of Mars, for twenty-one generations, Par kshatriyas, saying that you warriors are the cause of killing of this world. I will kill all of you, after that I
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killing of this world. I will kill all of you, after that I those kshatriyas who could worship Ganesha surviv means that when you are under attack by a very neg Ganesha. Only Ganesha can save you from a very, v Otherwise this Venus can ruin you. Only those ksha under Ganesha, and ran for their lives, survived the And finally one kshatriya was born called Ram, who tracks, and told him you have no right to continue th So the Parashurama Avatar and the Ram Avatar wer
mean? That means, here are two beings, standing an both are avatars of God. One is Parashurama Avatar both of these avatars are talking to each other. A ver That means, both are God, whose side will you take lesson we learned? You cant take sides when it com just cant take sides, there are no sides. Because you half, so dont take sides.
Parashurama killed his mother. Why did Parashuram is the important factor? When a child is born who sa and so father? Who knows other than the mother? S lineage comes from Venus. It is the responsibility of continue a lineage. How can you continue a lineage whose the father and whose the son? Do you see the problem. His problem is, and his only condition is, u born, the mother has to insure that she does not have else. How else will we know whose child it is? The because truth is ultimately to be established. If Venu responsibility, if let us say that you have been given that, let us say, I am Sanjay Rath so I must be the so must be connected to insure that there is a lineage. A responsibility, how will you insure it? By insuring th birth to the child is mating with that man. Thats how otherwise there is no other way to insure it. Is it not? insure it.
Because his own mother had gone over to the Haiha said, what happens to my lineage? Because the linea story. So Parashurama killed his mother. Venus kille thing to know, it just shows the hatred of a son whos
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thing to know, it just shows the hatred of a son whos somebody else. Many people in this world suffer thi with this problem very carefully. As jyotishis you w this problem. You will have to deal with this problem understand. This is one reaction. Ill teach you the o Jupiter and show you why our lineage is very great.
Now Parashara got hit by the sword of the Haihayas lineage to a similar situation. Parashara, when he op in a fishermans house. And his leg was completely people were looking after him. A lady was looking a name of the lady? Satyavati. So she was the fisherm nursed him back. And then the way they described i flower and a beautiful sun shone in the sky and Para he, Parashara muni, and Satyavati, had gandharvaviv gandharvavivaha is right? They were attracted to eac Parashara was not married to her; he did not have a around the sacred fire. Parashara had a gandharva, h time, only in a moment of weakness, one moment of
that one moment of weakness, Veda Vyasa came int So if Parashara muni could do that what is wrong w love? Is there something wrong if a boy and a girl ar wrong. See what the parampara teaches; Parashara m himself was born like that. And after sometime Para because he had to go for his job. He had to go from ashramas teaching them jyotish and all those things.
So this lady, Satyavati, gave birth to Veda Vyasa. A back to take his son one day. So his father-in-law as to my daughter if you will take your son away? Whi like monks. What will happen to my daughter? Im So then Parashara sat down in deep meditation and t said I bless her; from this moment I release her. It woman so that she becomes free. What is release? D was there in those days and Parashara muni has sanc anybody ever asks you that divorce is not there in th this is what Sanjay taught. Parashara clearly divorce went into meditation, opened his eyes and look at th has come to take his son. He has no house, he has no
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has come to take his son. He has no house, he has no place to another. He said No problem, I will take m my son all the mantras and everything I know, and You have nothing to worry. I see, because what di his wife and he has to give some blessing to his wife a nice son, that she shall be the queen of Bharat. Yo son to me, that means his mantra shakti was so muc become the queen of India. Now see the two contras Parashurama, who is considered an avatar, who kille father said so, and here Parashara, who releases his w blesses her in front of Veda Vyasa. So then the son u relationships. He respects relationships and blesses h of India. As destiny would have it, Parasharas wor to become the queen of India. That is an astrologers that was to his own wife whom he was releasing, tha there, even then he blessed her. That is what a jyotis (Q) So there is a scriptural sanction for divorce? (S) Ive given you an example of Parashara. (Q) Then why should we be criticizing others? (S) Who is criticizing? (Q) The Indians, the Hindus do.
(S) They do, that is there problem. They should lear who learn jyotish from me will never criticize anybo
understand that different people have different ways marriages. Gandharva is one of them. There are so m marriages. Even rakshashavivaya is that. What is tha and getting married to her. But that is not sanctioned like all these things. You see that? So it is not good. good and what is not good;
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because his father told him to kill his mother, he kill his father had made him so he killed his father also. him what he made him do was wrong. So what is Ve going berserk. You see that? No control. You dont because she did that so I killed my mother. Because thing I became a sinner and she had to die. What is a emotions, if you allow Venus or emotions to run am like a mad man. Twenty-one times he killed all the k mean by that? So you see these are not good ways. S and its nature as a graha. When Venus has an eclipse things will happen. You will fight with your mother father, you will destroy your own house, you will ca Venus to sit on the head. It is not good. (Q) What do you mean by sitting on the head?
(S) It means ruling your nature. When Venus rules s Venus has a strong influence on your destiny, this is destiny.
You saw Parashurama Avatar, how it is, so the wors is not liked by our lineage. In our lineage we say wh is nothing worshipable about this. Hes an avatar bu worshipable in this. What is it that makes him an av Parashurama Avatar was his brilliance and his creati creativity, creating something out of nothing. He tra creativity. He was not attached to his creation. He cr nothing. He created the wheel. He created this entire weapons. The entire creation that is taking place is b shukra. So he represents all creativity, all creation. T every time he creates something it is not for himself He always created for the purpose of giving. Do you when did the Parashurama Avatar end? Parashurama Shiva had two bows, the bows of Shiva. Lord Shiva had given to Janak whose mantra I taught you in the Krishna. Hare Rama Krishna is the mantra of Rishi sadakshari. It is a very powerful mantra. It is the bow Shiva.
So Shiva had two bows, one he gave to Rishi Janaka
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So Shiva had two bows, one he gave to Rishi Janaka Parashurama. Now Shivas bows were undoubtedly when Janaka had his daughter, Sita, to get married, d story? Sitas marriage and how Rama came and lifte the bow broke. When the bow broke it made a terrib heard by Parashurama and Parashurama went mad. H Shivas bow? And he picked up the other bow of Sh he saw this young man standing in front, smiling ov broken, and he said, Who did that? He said This moment he realized my avatar is over. The new avat time is finished, my deeds are over, and now Rama, He said, string this bow in front of me and it will be bow and he left an arrow. Rama strung the bow and universe, but it is said an arrow of Rama cannot fail. Shiva said where did the arrow go? So Parashurama where it can go. All my anger must go to the arrow. the arrow. So with the arrow all his anger went away
So the bow which was there with Parashurama, who Parashurama made that bow. See, he was a great cre out of nothing. Shukra is all about creation, fulfilling whom? Not for himself. You have to transcend the a If you have made this biscuit, beauty lies not in eatin to someone else to eat. That is Parashurama Avatar. and giving. Marriage is about giving and giving. Th He was an avatar because he transcended all his crea powerful weapon that he possessed, the bow of Shiv Rama and happily walked away. Who can do that? P possessions like God knows what. We cant even gi talk of a car. Do it honestly.
This position shows to what extent Venus is sitting o under the grasp of Venus. It is called Shukra graha. us. To get away from it we have to worship a certain Parashara advises that we should worship Parashura lineage later on we see that it is not the worship of P study Parashurama Avatar to understand what Venu more attached you are to your spouse the more diffic become. When you transcend the attachment, that is
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become. When you transcend the attachment, that is feeling happiness, or joy or sadness you will see the superb. You have to transcend the attachment. That the most difficult part of the marriage.
The mantra we dont do of Parashurama Avatar. We of Parashurama which is called the last form. After h renounced all his weapons. All the weapons he gave to Rishikesh to meditate. That is why we say: Om Rishikeshaya. We worship him the way he worshipp
Parashurama killing mother, killing father, all that I Parashurama as the one who went to meditate. So th great tapasvi, one who can do tapas, one who can m people who meditate is indicated by Venus also. Ve person who is determined to fulfill his tapasya. We w all later. We have to teach all that, and by the time I know everything. They should know different rasi a should be clear. (Q) Rishikesh also symbolizes dyana [meditation].
(S) That is what he did, that is what Venus is all abo not taking. Try to understand; my wife, my child, m thing. This is Shukra in the negative. Shukra in the p my house, now yours. You can stay in the house wit house, that is what Janak Rishi is all about. There w attached to the pillow on which he sat. Can you do t the 6th? When you see horoscopes, those of you kno look at the 6th house to find what your weakness is,
11 Rama and Krsna
The next avatar is the Rama Avatar. Ram Avatar is s dharma, the dharma avatar, the embodiment of right good. In the Ram Avatar we see the Sun in all its gl totally duty bound. And for him duty has been every that he has led a very lonely life of a perfect king; a warrior. Now Ram Avatar is not just to be studied li be studied with the Ramayana and with the chart in the jyotish class when we do it at a really advanced Page 47 of 81
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the jyotish class when we do it at a really advanced come, I will do a little bit of Ram Avatar. Ram Avat Sun and Moon, we will study with the horoscopes. T learn about Ram Avatar is how never to be failing in the call of duty comes. And how to be a great giver; even today we say it, nobody can give like Rama, un position whatsoever.
In Venus, Shukra Avatar, that is, Parashurama Avat both the names, Parashurama and Rama. In both cas detachment, of giving up. In one case it is personal r other case it is material possessions. Are you seeing is the case of giving up false kingdom. His father tol jungle, your kingdom will be looked after by your b walks off. How many guys would do that? We will f Its very difficult to even think of a kingdom. No wa are important. So Ram Avatar is all about the Sun an about the Moon. Krishna Avatar is about transcendi bondage of the mind. Om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya is for Sri Krishna, Vasudevaya. For the Sun, Sri Ram: Om namo bhaga people say Om namo bhagavateRajendraya also. Bu Maharajaya is for starting raja yogas. If you want th horoscope to start properly: Om namo bhagavate Ma immediately.
OK, well talk a little bit about Kurma Avatar, Satu
12 Kurma
Now, Saturn. Kurma Avatar. Kurma, Saturn. The gr to carry the burden of his sin. Saturn symbolizes the entire Kurma Avatar because of limited time, I will portions. In the last conference, on the West Coast, S quite an extent. So I will just touch on it slightly. Th shell and the tortoise is a very funny creature. When into the shell. We are like that. The hard shell repres hard, drdha karma, so hard that it is like a hard shell such a hard shell on your back. So you see, Saturn re
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such a hard shell on your back. So you see, Saturn re Drdha means that which cannot be broken, that whic which we are stuck with. All of us are sinners, aren you agree or dont agree? So Saturn represents that s we are carrying on our back. And Kurma, or the tort Because of the heavy burden on us we are to slowly horrible life, painful life. We want so many things b because sin is so heavy on us that nobody wants to b very beautiful about the tortoise, whats beautiful ab hang around us, they stay away from us. Luck doesn shell is resisting and we are so touchy about it that w become frightened and we withdraw inside that shel shelter. We take shelter in our own sin by doing mor somebody who is a sinner and you tell him you are d shelter within that sin by justifying that sin. It is a no normal animal attitude.
Our mind is like that, we will do that, because that is drdha. What is drdha? Drdha is that which is hard, w which is stuck to us. Why is it stuck to us? Because holding our minds, it is difficult for it to go. How to how to cause it to go? It is not easy. That sin doesn when we churn the karma. We have to take the karm what do we do? We take the tortoise and we put the is the tortoise? The tortoise is our sin and we put it i water? The water of karma, ocean of karma. It is no thing on some day or something. It is the ocean of k karma which is so huge like an ocean there is no cou many ants you have killed in your life? You cant, u know how many murders we have done and we don that little ant walking over there died. How many m lives, they had to go back, they had to take food and You never thought of them, you just killed them like mosquitoes you have killed. Here mosquitoes; to pro mosquitoes. We justified it. That is the beauty of the can always justify it, and hence we dont know it is That is the worst part of sin. A person who is taking Im taking it, I drink too much, it is bad, is much be one drink and says I just take one drink and its goo
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one drink and says I just take one drink and its goo doesnt know what is bad. At least the other one kno
To know that a sin is a sin is a big blessing. It is a ve own mind is blocking that knowledge of sin. By us d wrong based upon a certain culture that we live in. A inside that culture, where we can justify our sin. We culture and face some other culture where we would my point? It is a state of mind. So when the tortoise then on top of that they put Mount Meru. What is M But it is like a spindle. Mount Meru is the center of planets go. So what is that Mount Meru? Mount Me the horoscope that you draw. When you draw the ch of the horoscope is Mount Meru. Below the horosco tortoise. The horoscope that you draw, the Kurma A your sins are right there, and the churning is taking p round and round and round. When the planets go rou churning the spindle of your karma. And the churnin karma, what happened when the churning took place called hala hala. What was the name of the poison? put together is poison. Hlim. Hala hala is poison.
And who can take care of hala? Hara. Hala will be r Ha is akash; la is coming down; ra is going up. Like So the poison that was coming down to destroy us w that and Shiva drank it. So what did Shiva do? Shiva So who is your real, real savior? Because if Shiva di poison would have come into your life, and when it will burn, your body will be destroyed, terrible disea the root cause of disease also comes from Saturns K becomes the significator of disease. Saturn symboliz disease come? From you, you have caused your own cause your disease? From your sin, and what happen churned by the karma, the planets going around. An place a lot of poison came out. And who will drink t he will drink the poison.
So, what is the most important thing that you learn a story? Since you are born on this planet you must sa
must say it. If you dont say it, believe me, your bod
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must say it. If you dont say it, believe me, your bod day, so many times. The poison will burn you so bad is only when Shiva picks up the poison and drinks it the real helper? It is Shiva. He removes the tamas fr to transcend the tamas.
Now from that came out a lot of nectar. From the go got nectar. And so the nectar is supposed to give you it mean? The more good karma you have done, the m from the churning. Moksha is different from amrita. the beginning of the class. You may be in a state wh doesnt mean that you have got moksha. Do you see some state in some, God knows, which spiritual syst changing, but that does not mean that you have got m is, I do not know. You are still stuck in that. So in ge released from the cycle of karma. Amrita is the good
Now what else came out from the churning? Lakshm based upon your karma, you will get wealth. Based came out. Chandra coming out means mind, mana, m the different stages of the mind are based purely upo churning of the karma. So the state of mind has to b churning of the oceans. That is why we hear a lot of and things like that. They do not talk of other planet
Why? Because of the churning of the oceans. This m bliss of the mind, is purely a blessing of good karma Where do we get it now? What else, when Lakshmi then we had wealth and then all those good things co many other things came out. Maybe when you read good things are. You can study all the good things th not bothered, when good things come out you are no it. Im also not worried. Nobody will come to see yo good things are coming out from their karma. They poison drinking becomes difficult. So as an astrolog Om namah Shivaya. Because if you have not done cannot help the person who is in front of you. Becau burning with the poison that is going inside. There i come out. It is destroying the body, it is destroying t They cannot sleep at night because of the burning.
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They cannot sleep at night because of the burning. (Q) Is there a minimum number we should do?
(S) There is nothing called minimum. It depends on to burn. And who knows what is the limit. Do it. Ke
(Q) What about fear? There are sins, but they are cre times we do something out of fear. Is fear also relate Avatar?
(S) There are many ladies when they see a small rat, jump on the bed. And you see the men dont, they ar rat. Why? So how you react is your nature. Who ask Pick up the phone, call somebody else and tell him mosquito over there, you have to do something. Le going to do.
So what is left? Narasimha Avatar. Krishna and Ram the stories, to complete the Ramayana, and take the
13 Narasimha and Veda Murtis
Narasimha Avatar. Narasimha. Nara means human Among all the creatures the most ferocious is the lio In a battle nobody can beat a lion. In a strict one-tocannot be defeated. Even a tiger cannot defeat him. understand the Narasimha Avatar from various view are there for Narasimha Avatar.
There was this Narada Muni. Have you all heard of was a sage, Narada, and he had this beautiful habit t some activity or action going on he had to somehow was so smart, so smart I mean, I cant imagine how smart. He would always do the most clever things an of so many. There was this demon king. Whats his of those demons. He had a terrible ego. And he said no Bhagavan, have you gone mad? I am God! You m Why are you taking the name of God and this and th
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What is that? Ahamkar, ego, right? It is ego, we are problems. His brother had been killed by the Varaha at Vishnu. He said, I am going to destroy Vishnu, I those demons, I am going to take over the kingdoms loka, he kicked the kings out of heaven, they were h in suspended animation. So he had become the boss simpler words. So Indra and others ran to Vishnu s you doing?
At that time the kings wife became pregnant. See th became pregnant and she was carrying his baby. An kings baby, Narada Muni came. So she was so happ visiting her every day. She said Im really fortunate carrying? Ever since I started carrying this baby eve coming to my house. And he comes from the air and stories about Vishnu. And beautiful stories he would Narayana is that, is that. And she would listen to al very happy and go off to sleep. So she heard that ev finally one day the child was born. The child turned
of Vishnu and his name was Prahlad. They called hi he knew all the scriptures, he knew all the things, w was completely mad, saying What the hell is going born in my house who is taking the name of my ene madness. So he decided to punish his son. There w punishments he put him through. He would go throu a burning fire, he was made to stand in the middle o around. Nothing happened to him, nothing. He woul bhagavate Vasudevaya and the mantra Om namo Na it was he kept on saying the three Vishnu kavacha m Vishnu kavacha?
There are three mantras by which Vishnu will alway protection of the body it is Om namo Narayanaya destroyed you say Om namoNarayanaya, and your b When your mind is getting destroyed you say Om mind is protected. When your karma is getting destr bhagavate Vasudevaya, and your karma shall be pro mantras are called the Narayana Kavacha mantras. shield. See, Im talking of a shield when Im talking
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shield. See, Im talking of a shield when Im talking shield before this; Im talking of a shield when Im t of protection when Im talking of Mars avatar, right protection; Mars is all about protection.
So, his own father put him on the fire that would bu die because he was protected by the Narayana Kava OK, take him to the jungles, cut him and throw him jungles, they tried to cut him and something happen They tried to throw him from the top of a cliff. He s murder possible they tried but he didnt die. Finally completely lost his head and told him, it was about s set fully, it was neither day nor night, and his father your Vishnu, where is your God? So he told him Hes with me now. Where? Everywhere in everything. Hes not inside this pillar. Yes, he is in this pillar right now. I will break this pillar.
So he broke the pillar and from the pillar came this m body was a man, and the head was of a lion, with ve took the king and put him on his thighs and tore ope course he calmed down when the beautiful mantras
So you can see the important message here. Why wa half lion? We are talking of Mars, right? And I have Mars is all about defense, all about protection. I talk when I was talking of Mars just now. And what doe protection. And now, Im talking about half-man, ha another deity who has got the body of a man and the Ganesha has got it, correct. Ganesha the great teache teacher of the Vedas, Ganesha is a great teacher of t body and an elephants head. This is called Ketus V Page 54 of 81
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body and an elephants head. This is called Ketus V form, Veda, knowledge. The body is that of man, sh that of men. The head will indicate the kind of intell When the head is that of a lion the mind is like that o that he can destroy anybody, nobody can fight him. So when it is half-man and half-lion that is the form knowledge of warfare. It is called Dhanur Veda. Dh knowledge of warfare, the knowledge of the weapon To have knowledge of weapons you must worship N of the warriors, Mars avatar.
Ketu is a murti. The form of the one is like a Veda M associated with it. So Ganesha is not coming into th taking the equivalent of Ganesha to show how we ar
Mars but as a body of knowledge. We do not like to not worshipping the god of war. I dont like to wors should I worship the god of war? Hitler used to wor aware of that? Fine, make a note of it. There is a par ritual in which the god of war is worshipped by the G the world. You are aware of it?
We never worship the god of war, we worship the g worship? Worship is a way of appreciation. Do not a appreciate good things in life. Worship for good thin about? If you worship for war youll get war all the Hitler. OK, so even when it comes to Mars, we are n Mars, but as a teacher of the Vedas. So who are the Narasimha is a teacher of Dhanur Veda. Who are th The four Vedas are taught by Hayagriva. The first is human and half cow. The head is of a cow and the b Gomukha, he is the teacher of the Rig Veda. The Ri head. Then the Yajur Veda. The Yajur Veda is taugh goat; mukha is head, face. Then Hayamukha, horse Markatamukha, that is, monkeys head. Hes teachin means monkey. Do you know of any deity that has a human body? Markendeya. Everything has a Veda M Murti the Veda knowledge will come to you. For wa The Veda Murtis were all given a body with the abil special faculties of that animal.
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special faculties of that animal.
Ganesha, what a memory. Elephants head, elephant So memory comes from Ganesha, a faculty for all th faculty of memory comes from Ganesha. A person w scriptures, the entire jyotish, so please worship Gane Ganesha if you want the jyotish knowledge. There a Ganesha. There is one mantra I used to do for a long Shakti Vinayaka mantra. Om hrim gam hrim Mahag This is the mantra I did for this knowledge. Shakti, a hrim is the bija for Saraswati. Knowledge will come this you will get tremendous knowledge, memory, th horoscopes. You will be able to study all of them. R
So, Narashimha Avatar you have understood. What transcend? What did he cross over? What did he sho all about? What is the important thing that is being t no meaning if you do not have faith in the knowledg avatar. You can be the most learned person in the w no use to you if you do not have faith in the knowled the knowledge the knowledge is not yours. And whe the knowledge the knowledge will never leave you. individual teacher. The faith should be to the knowle importance of faith to the knowledge.
Prahlad was taught by Narada. And Prahlad was in t did not even know who was teaching him. You see t the womb so how does he know who taught him? A was taught the entire Srimad Bhagavatam, and all th Shiva Puranas, everything he knew. Everything he k womb, a little baby. And Narada Muni just looked a that, and sang it and all the knowledge went there. S Prahlad did not even know who his guru was. His gu who gave the knowledge is Narada but he didnt eve blind faith that yes, this knowledge is right, the know is that faith that makes you the best. If you want to e want to be the best in something, if you want to do v must have faith in that body of knowledge. If you do of knowledge, then knowledge can never come to yo Does jyotish work? You say Jyotish works, but I
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Does jyotish work? You say Jyotish works, but I jyotishi. Say that. The day you learn to say that you jyotishi. The knowledge will come to work for you. help you because you have faith in the knowledge. Y teachings.
We are transcending doubt. When do you become d have faith. When you have faith there is no need to b calm. Who is becoming defensive about something? who dont have faith. When you have faith in your k knowledge about something, there is no need to figh it. His father told him Ill burn you if you dont say said Why? Burn me? Im sure hell protect me. Fa
(Q) One signification I have never understood is, wh half-man, half-lion, not day, not night, not inside, no all the sandhis. Everything is sandhi, sandhi, sandhi. sandhi of the house, the sandhi of man, the human, t
(S) It symbolizes turning point. It symbolizes the Ga Gayatris in a day. The Gayatris are sunrise, sunset, t Gayatris, and the midday and the midnight. The sun is dharma. So the sandhis have to do with the Gayat associated with sandhya mangala. What is sandhya m
So the essence is that Mars plays a crucial factor in t Gayatris. It shows the spiritual discipline required. Y discipline. If you dont have discipline you will not defense is broken the moment of breaking your daily demon all about? The demon is all about things cann change at turning points. There is a turning point in will come, when the sandhi will come then sandhya junction. Sandhi means a junction between the day a sandhya means evening or sunset. It has to do with t
symbolizes not only turning points in life. You need times, you need strength at turning points in life. An provided you have faith. If you have faith in yoursel you will always succeed. The important message of you want to succeed in anything in life you must hav must have the energy of Mars to work for it. Very d
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must have the energy of Mars to work for it. Very d this world who has succeeded in any single disciplin the person has had tremendous faith and has been ve comes to that work. You have to put tremendous dis energy, and tremendous faith in that one work. Then normal abilities, normal success. You define your bo
Veda means knowledge. The Veda Murti reinforces of knowledge. If I keep worshipping Ganesha every enforced. So long as I am worshipping Ganesha I w long as I dont doubt jyotish, I tell people, if you wa and my ability, dont criticize the knowledge. The k failed. The knowledge doesnt fail. I always said tha able to go a step further, and each time I excelled m standards? I am not waiting for others to set standard And this is what my gurudeva taught me: dont wait for you. If you want to excel follow this path of the standards and I went at it myself. Why should I wait you will turn and look back and they will be way be struggling with things like vimshottari dasa. Yes, tha way behind.
(Q) Should we do a Ganesha mantra for learning jyo
(S) For any vidya you must. The thing about a subje have the memory of an elephant. (Q) But what about energy and discipline?
(S) The Veda Murti will give you. If you have faith will get the discipline. You will get everything from means to get the knowledge. Murti means the form. will have the faith and the energy and the discipline abilities that are required are with that Veda Murti. T form, that Veda form. It is an embodiment or a form you worship Hanuman the knowledge of Atharva V
14 Buddha and Kalki

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So have we covered everything? Buddha Avatar and Avatar is about transcending violence as they say in separate mantra for that, but in our tradition we wor The correct mantra for that is actually Om namo Bha
Because Buddha is also supposed to be the Moons studies indicate for my Mercury what I do is Om na The important thing about Buddha Avatar is transce have to transcend violence? Ahimsa; Buddha Avatar (S) Why do we need ahimsa? (Q) For getting out of karma? (S) Correct.
There is no end to this karmic cycle. That guy slapp See if I cant slap him in this life next life Ill slap h live again to slap him. How foolish. Somethings wr get over that? I can only get over that by taking ahim nonviolence so the question of reacting doesnt arise reaction and all that. OK, so we have finished the av (Q) Kalki?
(S) Kalki avatar is the Lagna, the last, the tenth avat
(Q) What is the planet is Buddha concerned with thi
(S) Mercury. Its all about nonviolence, vegetarianis Kalki
The Kalki Avatar, or Lagna. The Kalki Avatar has n supposed to manifest at the end of this yuga. At the Avatar will come. When he comes the Jagannath Te of the avatar to come will be because the Jagannath will be broken. You see, each time our brahmins hav save it. So many times the situations came to break i smart enough to save it. So when they come to break And that will be the cause of the Kalki Avatar. Jagan Page 59 of 81
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And that will be the cause of the Kalki Avatar. Jagan the temple where he is now to another temple which is already waiting for him. We already have people there every day cleaning it, maintaining it, waiting f when it will happen, to be shifted. Its unbelievable. the next God knows how many hundred thousand ye will also fall down. Is it not crazy? Yes, honestly the Orissa and I will show it to you. Its in Orissa.
That is an important prediction in all the Puranas tha fall at that time. That will be the end of the yuga. Th Jagannath Temple falls. That will be the ultimate de be the seat of the blue lotus. The Jagannath Temple above it. We cant see it but Shankaracharya has rec
Mahaprabhu has recorded that he has seen it. There blue light which takes away our tamas guna. There i in Puri. Something, we do not understand the whole Anyway, interesting.
So the Kalki Avatar is supposed to come to come so is supposed to be riding a white steed. I cant imagin ride a steed and go around in the modern days. See, what the white horse is. It could be some kind of veh of. The description is not very clear as to what he is white steed, there is no doubt. Jagannath is always s steed. It is very surprising, he is always shown, in al white steed. And he is depicted as the Kalki Avatar. Temple breaks the Kalki Avatar comes. And then of have become very tiny, tiny creatures of about one f race would have been reduced to such tiny proportio be rampant again. The kind of descriptions that are g such days. Unbelievable the state to which the huma degenerated. Its unbelievable. Somebodys imagina its phenomenal. The kind of things they say are rea mothers eating their babies as soon as they are born.
What is all this? What is all this? What is happening is happening in Kali Yuga? What is happening arou
man is failing him. The intelligence of men is failing
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man is failing him. The intelligence of men is failing think about what is good and what is not good. Simp any more. The total failure of their intelligence. The function. And by then their intelligence has fallen to will eat a baby. What is going on? To what extent ha Avatar helps them to transcend this fallen intelligenc intelligence. The supreme intelligence will always k (Q) So he will come as an embodiment of Lagna?
(S) Will come? Yes, but why should we wait for him a mantra? The mantra is Om namo Bhagavate Kalki (Q) Kalkine?
(S) Kalkine. Is there another mantra that you know?
(Q) In Puri the one Achyuta Gandhi teaches a Kalki (S) Yes, Do you know that mantra? (Q) I have it, its on their web page
(S) I will tell you, my gurudev said do not use all the use the mantra Om namo Bhagavate Jagannathaya never fail you. The name Om namo Bhagavate Jaga intelligence fail you. Your intelligence will always b calm. So now we have finished the ten avatars.
15 Four Paramatmamsa Avatars
(Q) Guruji, you mentioned in the second chapter the the avatars have more jivatmamsa and some have m doesnt make sense why.
(S) Oh, thats simple, its very simple. OK, well co question was asked by Eric over here, as to Parashar second chapter some of the avatars have more param
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second chapter some of the avatars have more param jivatmamsa. Now we know the difference between p jivatmamsa, right? The main difference being the ex transcending the three gunas. Within each of us ther that is called paramatmamsa. Even if it is there in a be avatar. OK? So there is a God inside all of us in a branch there sit two parrots called the jivatma and th other. And who is dominating and who is able to do difficult to accept. This is a conception that there on parrots sitting like that. In reality there are not two p there is only one atma inside. So there are multiple w One atma, two atmas, multiple atmas. But the point what extent they have transcended the gunas.
The pain and suffering of the mother was transcende when he took the world out of complete and total da destruction, thereby giving birth to the human being another life to the world. That is the reason why he w attached to the fruits. He was beyond the gunas. He the pain out. It is only a comparitive, when you calm what extent has the paramatmamsa manifested. That manifested super human qualities. When there is an qualities, then only we know that the paramatmamsa much beyond. And we find that only in the four ava
The highest is supposed to be the Krishna Avatar wh meeting sixteen thousand wives simultaneously. Ho one Krishna meet sixteen thousand wives? So he is t mind. The mind cannot understand, he has transcend mind. Every limitation of the mind he has crossed. T multiple events. A little child, a little baby, is killing little baby is killing demons. How is that possible? N of the demons he has killed. How is it possible? So t superhuman abilities.
Ram, picks up the bow and sends an arrow. How ma there lined up? How many, seven, ten, eleven? The I think eleven of them. Each coconut tree is pretty th with great strength, at most, you can pierce through strong. Normally it goes slightly inside. Its a hard w wood. Eleven trees, it goes through the trees cutting
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wood. Eleven trees, it goes through the trees cutting them. And goes across and comes back. Superhuma laying out there, touches the stone, the stones are thr are floating in the water. Whats going on? Whereve is beyond the gunas, because when it is beyond the g follow the laws of physics, what we call the laws of an exhibition of such a thing, absurd thing which yo called paramatmamsa, because that is what is divine no clear exhibition. Even in the Vamana Avatar who the entire universe. Nobody could see it because the How do you see it? What is the exhibition? You are People dont get to see that. So the exhibition is not avatar. So like that you have to understand, the trans
What about lesser avatars? Because if you see, Paras these avatars are from the grahas themselves and som upon these grahas, the most important avatars for th are also other avatars, lesser avatars that we call ams Mahaprabhu, who is supposed to be an avatar of the is supposed to be an incarnation of Krishna. Why? B Lagna. OK? Have you seen his chart? You should b these charts you should teach. And the condition of in Lagna. All those things. You will be learning all m Freedom. He is way ahead, believe me. Hes learned and learned a lot.
(Q) What is the signification of the four that Parasha Krishna, Narasimha and Varaha he lists. (S) They are the Purna Avatars, that means they are exhibited some complete paramatmamsa.
(Q) There are four kendras, four directions, four.. Is
(S) Yes there is some other, think. See the descriptio headed Vishnu to get your answer. OK? When Vish five-headed, of the five tattwas you will have the an
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16 Intro to Gunas
Sanjay: What is gunas? A quality or state of the bein nature of things? An attribute. For example tamas gu
ignorance. So it's lack of knowledge or is it goodnes you give me a word in English. Harmony of what? W you are talking of 2 different objects and how they a other?
Student: Sattva is between rajas and tamas so sattva
Sanjay: So you are looking at sattva as some kind of escapist route.
Student: Isn't it knowledge? Krishna says it is know knowledge. Tamas is ignorance.
Sanjay: From sattva comes knowledge. That is my p tamas as ignorance is wrong. From tamas comes ign cause of tamas. One of the results of tamas, one of th When you follow tamas you follow ignorance, tama
Students: Pure, sattva is what truly is, knowing the t
Sanjay: How do you know the things as they truly a Students: From pure perception.
Sanjay: What does it indicate? Light. It gets light. L light leads to knowledge. Darkness leads to ignoranc and other side darkness. And in between shadows. C Rajas guna is about chasing shadows. What is light? Sattva guna means balanced energy. Or balanced lig light that is sustaining, we have enough light in this each other. We are happy, we feel that this light is e ...can see all of you. What would happen if suddenly glaring down on us? cannot see all of you. It would when the light is more than normal and Im also blin than normal. So normal light is sattva guna. In norm
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because that is my intake. Blinding light is raja guna can only see shadows, when the light is glaring dow someone over there. Similarly when you are in dark anybody? In darkness you can't see each other. You tama guna.
Now translate light into energy so sattva guna mean can last forever. Like the energy of earth. See earth How many years? Isn't it phenomenal? All these pla the sun are like a perpetual motion machine. They a and round. They are not going faster than they are g definite path, they are just going round and round in That is called sattva guna. So these planets are in sat planets are in a better state of energy than you and m are getting up running like madmen, getting tired sit eating food, getting energy again, running, getting ti getting up, getting energy, running around and again are constantly having raja guna and tama guna. Can' state, don't run around, don't use excess energy, don perfect energy level then we can live forever in this a thousand years. The wear and tear of this body wil understood very calmly? But we cannot do that beca energy shoots up with raja guna and shoots down to means stopped car. When the car is full of gas it run finishes, stops the car, cannot go anywhere until fill more gas it runs around. That is the state of all being raja guna or in tama guna. Raja guna means too muc Because of this excess of energy you want to do so m want to do this to do that the day is not enough the d
People in America are typically in raja guna. Typica A day of 24 hours is not sufficient for them. People extreme. Typical of tama guna; everyday don't know the movies? In the morning they buy the tickets and many cups of tea. The time is the same. The speed o them in America and in Puri. But see how in Puri th here (in America) the same day there is more daylig daylight savings, typical raja guna concept is daylig so much confusion with daylight savings. How can y
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so much confusion with daylight savings. How can y have a battery? If we could just change the working is happening? The mind is full is raja guna the mind Like children, they never grow up.
What about tama guna? Old men. half way to the gr Time is passing. The other extreme. Tama guna peo guna people have too much to do. Sattva people hav to do. That is the difference. Sattva guna is those pe hours. That is the perfect day. God has made the cor ever heard someone say that? No. The day you hear he is in perfect sattva guna.
Correlation of time and the gunas is very important running us. Time is our controller. We are totally co is the boss. So like this all these planets cause us to h we have tama guna we look down. When we have sa rajas we look slightly on the side or we look straight show you his chart, first see how the person has gen person is always looking down, "oh got so many pro that means tama guna is dominating over him. If his plans, was thinking of writing another book, yes, wi head is up he is in sattva guna. If it is straight it is ra down it is still rajas. Raja- tamas, raja-sattva. So thre
having, and in the rajas group 2 intermediate positio straight-slightly down. So we have how many positi position looking up is called Uttama, the West. Look doing the guru mantra like Aum guruve namah, wi cause your head to go up. Just start it tomorrow. Do will start going down. Why? Because these grahas a the graha who is sitting on your head, this is the man look down or you look up. So whose mantra should do a sattva guna mantra. Always try to do a sattva g mantras will keep your head up, tama guna mantra w bad mantras will take your head down, when you ar head down.
Guna is not only a state of energy but the reflection It shows what is happening in your mind. What is ha
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It shows what is happening in your mind. What is ha Are you in a positive, looking up? Are you full of ra you full of tamas looking down? If you are looking God has given us eyes to tell us where we will go. It we will go. These eyes are very powerful, keep that see with the eyes that is where you will go. Eye dire front you will go there. Eyes are very important, if t you will go down, if your eyes look up you will go u mantra: if the head is going down is not suitable for
17 Gunas and Grahas/Rasis
The Grahas have sattva, rajas and tamas guna by the maximum amount of sattva is Jupiter, Brihaspati. W right so now we can talk of grahas. The graha with t sattva is JUPITER followed by the SUN and the MO Moon are sattva guna. The raja guna planets are Me tama guna planets are Mars and Saturn. Based upon owned by them are said to be sattva and rajas becau when we talk of human beings or we talk of animals This nature of signs is applicable to jivatma. Are yo the planets? Which is the signs owned by the Sun, M Kataka, Dhanus and Meena. These four rasis are sat born in these rasis intrinsically have sattva,Lagna in ultimately the guna dominates over his intelligence. show the intrinsic nature of these gunas.
Then after that which are the raja guna signs? Mithu Thula are the raja guna signs. What does rajas mean Inertia is the opposite. full of energy, dying to do an Surprisingly cities, big cities are ruled by Gemini. T when you live in a very big city whether you like it raja guna. So if somebody asks you want to go live it will suit me?" Does he have one of these planets M the chart? If it is not don't advise the person to live i have a hell of a time.
Tama guna signs? Capricorn and Aquarius, signs ru Scorpio, signs ruled by Mars. Of these signs the sign complete tama guna. Mars still has energy, of refilli
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complete tama guna. Mars still has energy, of refilli in these signs are tama guna.
Now there is another order of things based upon cre which is moving fast because there is lots of energy That means rajas, so the movable signs are rajas gun and Makara. The name is very important, we tend to the sanskrit word the more you use them it is like a p are taught to pray to the signs buy using the names. Mesha, Simha, Meena you will find that that sign w energy. Use the names.
So which are the fixed signs? That which cannot mo Those with no energy. Who is in tama guna who is i where to go; complete darkness. So which are the fi Vrishabha and Kumbha, these have tama guna.
So the remaining four signs have sattva guna. Mithu who are the lords of these four signs? Mercury and J
activities of these two planets; reading studying, kno know what sattva guna is all about. Sattva guna is ab knowledge. That is the reason why.
So there are two systems. One, for the intrinsic natu objective. One group is for intrinsic nature of people objectives they have to achieve. Let 's look at Meena Jupiter is the lord of the sign so the intrinsic nature i objective to be achieved? Sattva. So Jupiter is sattva achieving sattva. Now see Sagittarius? Sattva person Now look at Leo. He is a sattva person who has to a tamas? Punish the wrongdoer. Put the man in jail. H value if he cannot punish. The first job of the king is weapon, a very tamasic act. So what happens when do a very tamas act? It is very difficult for him. It is has to do it. That is why in anger he blazes. He burn tama guna. If you try to catch the sun you will burn
Moon is sattva guna. But what is happening? Has to function. What will happen to a sattva guna person w
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function. What will happen to a sattva guna person w guna function? You will accumulate a lot of sin. Bec what you do not what you are. Just because you are mean your karma is good. Karma is based on what y (some discussion with class off topic)
Cancer lagna is basically and intrinsically a sattva g person has raja guna desire he will accumulate sin. H two gunas and add them up. What is left behind is w simple formula. Jupiter was sattva guna and again sa sattva. The Sun was sattva guna who has to do a tam and tama, what is left out? Rajas. So what he is accu does rajas lead to? Ahamkara . Ego. Tremendous eg comes when he does this work. We are deriving the Moon. Moon is sattva doing a rajas function, what is have the energy and still you what to run across the your legs. That is what happens to the Moon. Ambit must be curtailed. If your desire is not practical you What is happening? Sattva is the level of your energ to achieve some big tasks. You don't have energy fo guna to match that. You are bound to flop. So the M limits. And when you study the stories of the Moon, Tara and how the moon did this and that. See the raj comes to the Moon? How the Moon falls so badly? Mithuna Lagna. Freedom: Mercury is a rajasic planet doing a sattva the outcome is going to be tamasic.
SJ: Right, that means you have too much energy, yo what is the intrinsic nature? It is rajas guna. You thin that is easy, that is no problem, nobody knows anyth nature. What is outside? Your activity, what you wa must do only sattva guna. So you are curtailing your all the time struggling to hold your self back. The ne to sit down. Your achievement will come down. Yo point? This is one of the biggest stumbling blocks fo achieve. This is the problem in their achievement. B whose trying to come down to rajas trying to do satt story. How about Aries? Page 69 of 81
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story. How about Aries?
Freedom: Aries is intrinsically tamasic, with a rajasi sattvic.
SJ: Superb. Intrinsically they are lazy fellows, given to go to sleep all the time. They are rajasic; that mea so many things but because they are lazy they canno will only do what they can do so hence they are succ
Mesha Lagna that is how they are. See how beautifu sattva leads to success. Who will do Vrishchika?
Zoran: Intrinsically they are tama guna and objectiv so that means they will be double tama guna.
SJ: That means these are people that are double succ Scorpio is that rare sign which is a master of tamasic by nature and his objective is like that so he achieve gets debilitated in Scorpio. We will go into that later try Taurus?
Sarbani: Venus is a rajasic planet and Taurus is a tam tamasic so sattva is the result.
SJ: See the beauty? You have so much energy but y of it, you want to spend only little. Typical Taurus h dollars in his pocket but says" don't have any money they are forever talking about a limitation of energy money, lots of energy they need. But when it comes action it will be very limited. That means when they careful when they spend energy and effort. They are objectives and because of that they are very success resources and very limited objectives. This is what i Scorpio is very unsuccessful because of very limited objectives.
Ok in the manner you can understand what the perso the objective is. When there is a match between the
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the objective is. When there is a match between the there is a mismatch it is painful. Now you can also u about. Your whole outlook of dasa will change now that is coming into my mind that is why the first das Vimshottari dasa, the guna that is coming in my min want? If my mind wants a tamasic function. That me lead to sorrow. But if my objective is tamasic and m tamasic then maybe it is good for me. For example M person is very good. Why is Mars dasa very good fo Because his intrinsic nature is tamasic. So the tamas that, you have to understand. You first have to unde the gunas.
18 Four types of Guna, Uttama
SJ: These mixing of gunas produce four types of hum the gunas, none of us are in perfect guna all the time our body can be in a guna, our objective in a guna. B gunas there are four types of human beings. Or in si beings exhibit 4 types or 4 natures- every day we ch very happy, some you are very sad, some days you a energy. These are called the four castes. So you mus caste is nothing but a predominant guna.
The predominant guna will decide your varna. And guna. It is the nature that is staying with you for a lo gunas cause four kinds of natures. One is called Utta have to say about uttama?
He bears the quality of forgiveness." He can be very forgive you don't have sattva guna intrinsically. So t nature and ability to forgive even their biggest enem Jupiter. Who else but Rama standing on the battlefie who asks for forgiveness even now? "believe you, I picked up my wife that is why I have to come to res uttama, the best guna. That is why one of the most b Rama by which you can get complete blessings of e house is: OM NAMO BHAGAVATE UTTAMOSH Uttamoshlokaya" causes uttama guna to come to yo
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increase in you. "Shloka" is that which cause the mi shlokas are supposed to be in a rhythm. They are wr And this, UTTAMOSHLOKAYA is the best rhythm system goes into sattva guna. Like for example whe the Mantra:
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE MAHAPURUSHAYA mahapurusha . Shiva will make you a mahapurusha. shall you be.
So, uttama guna is forgiveness, having control over difficult. Only great Maharshis have great control ov undergo penance, tapas, will possess purity, Jupiter. the qualities that are being expressed over here? Bea That is sattva guna. Always calm even in the worst e Humbleness. Even having the best knowledge he is is sattva guna, if he is not humble he is full of pride guna. When you see the guna you have to decide, fr guna will be Uttama guna. Uttama guna means a pre and such a person is a Brahman. These things lead a not they are not a Brahman. Merely being born in a you are a Brahmin. These are the gunas Parashara sa
19 Madhyama, Adhana, Udasina
Then the next comes to madhyama, madhyama mea for Kshatriya. What are the qualities of Kshatriyas? used, very brave, radiant, full of light, shining, cleve war. See these are signs of Kshatriya. Now so many chapter and so many teachers have taught this chapt you that the four types of gunas here are the four cas a note of this very specifically. When somebody say quote this shloka to him and tell him the day you wi shall accept you to be a Brahmin. Otherwise not.
If somebody tells you he is a Kshatriya tell him this have to exhibit: you have to be valorous, radiant, cle warfare, and protecting the holy people. If you don't can you say you are a kshatriya? You have no right
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can you say you are a kshatriya? You have no right Then if you are not if you are not a Brahmin and you what are you?
Then there is one more thing called Adhana, means neither brahmin nor kshatriya. They are adhana. The greedy, will tell lies, foolish, lethargic, lazy and alw to people. How can serve somebody so can get some serving a master but what can get out of the person. are called the sudras.
Then there is the fourth class and they are called the sad, sorrowful, always sad. They are destined to live See the characteristics of these people? They are cal which means always after agriculture, has my crop b must I do to improve the crop? Their whole life is ab You are going to be sad. The vagaries of nature are happy so don't be after the crop, you should remove crop, if it grows it will grow. If it doesnt, it will not
food to eat since god has given you the wealth. That udasina people are running after agriculture, increas Pumping injections into tomatoes to make them this Tomatoes and potatoes are tasting the same. That is is becoming sad because of these foods. All they can increase money. They will only spread misery and s Businessman. See what Parashara is telling? These a largely focused on more agriculture, more business, animals, more animals. The chickens, put a double i come out. See that? And these are people who will s of convenience. If it is convenient to tell the truth th wont. They have no hassles. It is all a question of c
So you see? These are the four qualities. You have s mixing up causing brahma, kshatriya, vaishya and su
Student: so the gunas are mixing up but still the pred is sattva and in the madhyama is predominantly raja predominantly tamas.
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SJ: No, its not like that. Remember we have to raise uttama. Right? Then, madhyama. Then udasina. Our There is nothing called perfect balance. Nobody is p can never be perfect. Rajas has an upper rajas and lo
madhyama, the kshatriya. The lower rajas is udasina kshatriyas and vaishyas are rajas. The kshatriya wan want money. So the kshatriya and the vaishya are go udasina gunas. Sudras are in tamas. And brahmins a one minute that these castes are based on birth. Birth of our Parampara, Sri Achyuta Dasa was born to a s karma became a brahmin. It is a question of your ka what you want to do. Your action will decide.
20 Dynamic Gunas
The Lagna is telling us what your intrinsic nature is. nothing stops you from changing. That is the beauty otherwise why are we learning Jyotish? If we canno We cannot know what to do to become better or hav Then why study Jyotish? Jyotish is meant to increas don't learn Jyotish. Students: Isn't Jyotish about living OK?
SJ: Jyotish is not about living OK. Jyotish is about i changing but what you are suppose to be right now t Maximizing your possibility or potential. At any poi different stages of the gunas. One is your intrinsic g which is the Lagna, your intelligence has got that gu The dasa calls certain gunas to come. Know people Rahu dasa was eating meat and then Jupiter dasa cam and the Saturn comes and start eating meat.
Know some great astrologers who say your Saturn d getting results because you are not taking alcohol, st Can you believe there are such characters? The prob the meaning of the word guna at all. They have gone and drekkanas and planets and yogas without even k looking for. Their basics are totally zero. They don't
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looking for. Their basics are totally zero. They don't They don't even know what the meaning of brahman have valor. He is suppose to exhibit a certain quality perfect Vaishya must have udasina guna. He will be guna. That is a separate issue, but he must have that money. Only people who run after money have to be become sad they don't run after money. The guna is Udasina is sorrow, sad. Adhana is that which is dete Adhana guna will just do detestful things. If they do will start having thoughts of God that means the gun no longer in adama guna. So we are all exhibiting di broad period basis but also have a specific guna on a gunas are changing on the basis of dasas. The prima the guna at the moment. How it is affecting the pers the predominant guna in the mana (mind). Pratyanta in my intelligence. If three of them are good all the t happen? And what can one do to insure have sattva do a mantra. Which is always keeping my head up. I your head is going up keep doing it your guna is goi See the characteristics of the gunas, understand wha you have to refrain from. Once you plan your life an what not to do how can sorrow touch you? Students: .... Whatever you do is your free will....
SJ: Free will is in the houses 3, 6, 10, 11. Ten is one hand. If karma was not in your hands Krishna would shlokas telling the whole Bagavad Gita to Arjuna in when every one is holding bow and arrow like that. and spears are ready and Krishna is telling Arjuna, " here is the Bagavad Gita." Why would Krishna do th this nonsense, sit down in your chariot, picks up the finished with the Sudarshana, nobody could stop the have done that. Why did he have to tell Arjuna fight fight because he is not his grandfather, he must figh grandfather, what is the need? Why did Krishna tell Think? Why? Why could Krishna not do it? Was he That is what karma is all about. As a Kshatriya you
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That is what karma is all about. As a Kshatriya you the gunas of a Kshatriya? Shall you go back again. V will not retreat from warfront. Yes or no? If he had p away from the battlefield is he a Kshatriya or is he a is running away from the battle, giving all kinds of e the gunas. Krishna understood his gunas. He clearly this is your dharma, you have to live up to it, you ha don't fail the test. As a Brahman many times I am al many times, know I failed it. Sit and brood and think
Question from student- what guna are Rahu and Ket the nature of the planet they are conjoined with. And any planet?
SJ: If they are not Rahu and Ketu are by nature are t the dictum that Ketu is like Mars and Rahu is like Sa guna grahas, chhaya grahas.
Student: And comparing the intrinsic nature of the p Aquarius are the two that are pure tamas, double tam
SJ: That is why there are co-rulers of those signs, th them, Ketu preferred Scorpio and Rahu Aquarius.
21 Guna and Varnada Lagna
We know there are four types of gunas and these are so later on what we need to understand is these sign objectives. And what a person must be there is some Varna is based upon what you are suppose to be. Th lagna will decide what will be your varna. If it is in bramana. If the 11th lord from Varnada lagna is a fir Kshatriya means madhyama guna, Brahman means earth sign it is a Vaishya or udasina guna . If it is in Adhana guna that is sudra. Shall repeat it again? Fire signs, Kshatriya, Madhyama guna
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Water signs, Brahman, Uttama guna Air signs, Sudra, Adhana guna Earth signs, Vaishya, Udasina guna
Students: The 11th lord, the sign of the 11th lord fro 11th sign from the varanda lagna.
SJ: Yes, the sign occupied by the 11th lord from the your varna. If your varna, find out who this 11th lor mantras of this 11th lord believe me you will be ver your varna.
Students: So if we break this down, Guruji, graha gi rasis giving us the objective then together they are g of a sudden we move to tattva or what our work is...
SJ: Tattva where are the tattvas? did not talk of tattv Students: Water, fire, earth, air.
SJ: No, I am just talking of signs for the gunas. Just lord of the varanda lagna, the 11th lord is the source of income, Labha, will decide your karma. So that is If it is in a water sign it is definitely brahman karma
Students: If the 11th lord is in a earth sign but for so brahmin activity then what?
SJ: It isn't that they can't. It can show they were prim will not be successful in the other thing. Like me my Varanda lagna is in Libra. So make a chart with the
house from the varanda lagna is a fire sign, with Me Sun it's in CANCER. Now Cancer is a water sign w suppose to do Brahman karma. But because the 11th it and because of that planet was forced to do Kshatr the government, the government service is Kshatriya sitting in the Rasis will force me. Whatever will be t
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sitting in the Rasis will force me. Whatever will be t lordships will be forced into those situations. One is seventh lord wife, whatever it is will be forced by ci
Students: If you had done the mantra could it have p work for the government job.
SJ: Yes, should have, what to do about the mantra is because Saturn dasa the mantra was suppose to fail.
Students: So it is best for you to do the 11th lord's si
SJ: Yes, Gayatri mantra, SUN, Sun is Gayatri mantr mantra. I think I have done a good job, I see so man over here and I have taught them the gunas which ar Jyotish and think I am doing a pretty decent job. Wh according to his varna he will succeed in what he do matching up. It is matching up with what he will suc success in what you are doing. There are some peop
businessmen. You have to transcend, once you trans nothing. Our efforts should always be to transcend a sattva guna. Have no right to feel happy. Even happ guna is not right. Should feel blissful. Blissful is ble opportunity you all could find time spend a whole d feel very blessed that my guru has been very kind. If joyful that is sattva guna. If raja guna, oh power, ho now? Why did that go, must do something... that is with politics. Tamas guna: should not be teaching t will become more cleaver than me. Many teachers of the teaching? Once you understand gunas you wi you will teach for the bliss of the teaching.
Students: Is there ever a time when a planet in the ra than the actual rasi itself. So you have a brahmin gra
SJ: The grahas are bound to dominate in the gunas y dominance. Sri Rama was a kshatriya but Jupiter wa That is Tama guna of a brahman. To forgive is not i not suppose to forgive. Are you a king or are you a B
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you must punish somebody for the flaw how can yo are asking for forgiveness and you give it Why? You supposed to punish when punishment is required. Bu nature, forgiving disposition, calm very humble? W All the brahmin gunas had come to him.
22 Upaya
So the planets in Lagna are bound to give some kind and we must make an effort to get over the negative mantras. If Saturn is there do mantras of the Sun. If Jupiter. This is a very important thing I must teach y Moon, and Jupiter are always of sattva guna. Alway gemstones ideally of these planets. Remember that w strengthening and will only give you better gunas.
When you give a gemstone even better than gemston Gemstone is still tamasic. Use mantras. Always do a Jupiter as a permanent mantra. For the simple reason your lagna or lagna trines pick up a mantra of the Su or Saturn is your atmakaraka or Saturn is very heavy How else can you get over Saturn? Similarly if you of too much rajasic problems for you pick up a Sun the best.
Students: Can you comment should be wearing moo house for Libra Lagna. SJ: Try it and see, unless you try it how will you kno How will you learn if you don't try it? What is the h you when the Devi is good for you. We will discuss think about what I have said. Try to understand one Saturn is in the first or ninth house he will complete your fortune. One of the two things he will do. He w destroy you. Don't care what is the lagna. Even in C is in the first or in the ninth he will completely and t health, or fortune or some such aspect. So Saturn ha such a thing it is necessary for you to worship the Su Sun otherwise you have no way out. Similarly, Satu Page 79 of 81
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Sun otherwise you have no way out. Similarly, Satu level you cannot imagine. He will finish all your sou I am giving one small dictum, whatever be the lagna Paramahamsa; Kumbha lagna with Saturn exalted in anything better than that? Do you see the poverty he eat for two or three days. No food. I can site exampl charts invariably it doesn't fail because these things Nadis. So I am giving you a simple example so you this you will be breaking your head looking for solu year after year he will come back to you, you will no for him for Saturn in the first or ninth house and som the Sun. And if the Sun is also malefic the person ha
Student: I am sorry Sanjayji, this is becoming intens retrograde Saturn with Rahu in the Lagna for me so special mantra.
SJ: Gayatri mantra. Do the mantra you have been in initiated into Gayatri Mantra so do it. Why are you n even more harsh on you. Somebody who is not initia person is not doing the mantra is not punishable. Wh Saturn is Dharma raja. If Dharma raja is standing ov over here, what will he say? He'll say you have been doing the gayatri watch what he will do to you. You is no escape. Don't give me any students. Rahu is in give the results of Saturn so we are not only having three times power of Saturn plus Rahu with Saturn t of Saturn. Shanimaharaj is in six fold strength in the
You have to do the Gayatri mantra, know it can do m yourself. I have a retrograde Saturn aspecting my La
Students: It will change the gunas by doing the man
SJ: Simple as that. The best sattva guna planets do n gemstones so much they want you to do mantras. Be sattva guna. Gemstone is not a sattva guna remedy. remedy. And mantras from where? The Rig Veda. W
om, hreem, haum, why? Om bur bhuva svaha, tat sa
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om, hreem, haum, why? Om bur bhuva svaha, tat sa you are suppose to sing and enjoy. What about the m
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02 Hare Rama Krishna

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05 Bhu Loka, Atma

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